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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Senator PenrOSe'S Speech
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Vt IOlh the L Illdueipnld lHQulTeT.J
Senator Penrose has been called
the foremost exponent of the prin-
ciple of protection to American in
dustry, and in the really notable
speech which he made in the Sem
ate on the pending Revenue bill he
easily demonstrated that his politi-
cal convictions upon that point are
based upon a thorough knowledge
of our financial conditions and upon
the economic history of the United
States. He declared in favor of the
passage of the Revenue bill, but
entered an energetic protest against
the writing into the measure of the
rates of taxes to be collected in
1920. The purpose of this is plain
enough. We must have a revenue
measure, and the present bill, or ct
least that part of 1t referring to the
taxes for 1919, really constitutes a
war measure. Presumably the Sem
ator from Pennsylvania, speaking
or himself and most of his Repub-
lfcan colleagues, does not care to
delay the passage of such necessary
legislation. He will vote for Ii as a
matter of patriotic duty, and later
seek to remedy such parts of the
measure as are Objectionable to the
In this connection Senator PEN
rose calls attention to the impera-
tive need of reducing the expenses
of the govrnment. Economy must
be the watchword, he says. and cur
tailment, retrenchment and careful
legislative checks or expenditures,
must be the practice. The army
must be demobilized to the limit of
our continuing responsibilities, and
we must return to our national and
hereditary vocation. He calls atten-
ton to the immense importance of
all commerce and industry and
shows that they constitute "the de-
velopment of the arts and sciences,
the elevation of the standards of
men and women, through peaceful
channels, of the destiny of the hu-
man race" Then, in an easy and
logical manner, the Senator pro-
ceeds to prove that next to the valor
and the courage of our soldiers, the
industrial might of America won the
war.
Here, then, we are brought to see
the need of a continuance of the
time-honord policy of a protective
tariff. The thoughtless do not seem
to realize that for a period of nearly
sixty years, in one form or another,
we have had such a tariff, and 1t
has been the means of establishing
our commercial supremacy-a su-
premacy which did so much for the
winning of the war. Needless to
say, 1t Is too early to decide upon
the extent and the character of
such a tariff measure. At present
the situation takes care of Itself.
The war took the place of a protec-
tive tariff. Conditions will be unset
tied for a time. but in the near fu-
ture we must begin the work of re-
construction, and that work must
include preparations for the indus
trial independence of America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
OVERSEAS IN 24 HOURS
9ackers of Christmas Airpane Make Astonishing Claims
(From the New York MaiD

seen soaring over New York at two
hundred miles an hour. or even
more, its promoters believe.
On its first flight from Mineola
down Long Island the machine
made 10 miles an hour, the pilot,
Cuthbert Mills. never having seen 1t
before he took his seat.
The striking feature of the plane
is the absence of struts and flying
wires. the wings being built on the
cantilever principle, the absence of
wires and struts giving n complete
streamline effect making the inven-
tor says, for speed and safety.
To SHOW" the machine the inven-
tor plans flight to Washington in
competition with, the Looming record
breaking monopiane and the Curtiss
triplane.
Between now and spring n huge
transatlantic f1ight machine is to
be built, 1t being planned to carry
more than forty persons and to
make the trip, following the regular
ocean steamer lanes. from this port
to Queenstown in twenty hours
Already several people who have
seen the first machine fly have ap-
piled for reservations for the At
lantic. trip.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Representative Heber Dithrich,
of Allegheny county, may not. get
here for the opening of the session
as he is in the army.
The Rev. DR.. A. j. Turkle, elect
ed first president of the board of
education of the United Lutheran
Church, is a Pittsburgh clergyman.
Congressman George p. Dar-
row, who introduced the resolution
in Congress to bring the Kaiser to
account, is a Philadelphian.
Stephen Stone, Pittsburgh city
solicitor and well known here, is
taking an active part in the traction
matters In that city.
Mayor A. H. Swing, of Coates
vile, stands no nonsense. When a lit
neyman refused to take people over
rough streets he revoked the
license.
james Bowers, who has been
acting as a Knights of Columbus
secretary in France, is home again,
in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
THE BRITISH NAVY

TTow. we wonder. would the
United States feel II Great Brit
ain came forward with the
recommendation that We do away
with our navy, or at least reduce its
strength materially? The proposal
would be far more welcome. we
assume, and since our navy is no
such bulwark of safety to us as is
the British navy to the British en-
pire, 1t is not difficult to imagine
the feelings the American proposal
to shorten sail has aroused in Eng
land.
There is no doubt that Germany
would have won the war had 1t not
been for the British navy. Despite
the submarine British sea power
kept the Atlantic sufficiently free
to enable us to feed and supply the
allies with food and provisions the
while we were getting our own
forces into action. So Americans in
general will agree with Lloyd
George that this powerful instru-
ment Of protection shall not be de-
stroyed, or even seriously blunted.
1t has stood between civilization and
the beast once, why may it not be
required to do so on some other
occasion?
No surer way to sow dissension
among the allies could be found
than to antagonize the British in
their desire to retain intact their
single weapon of defense, for the
empire is so scattered that a fleet
alsne can meet it's needs in this re-
spect. No better bit of German
propaganda could be spread than
this. So 1t is with hopeful hearts
Americans read that President Will
son does not mean to press this
point beyond a mere statement Of
his beliefs as they affect the navies
of the world in general. With Ger
many finally united under the guise
of a republic, but still Hun at
heart, we may yet have to call for
the good old British navy to stand
by the guns again, as it did when
the German fleet threatened Dewey
at Manila.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
PRICE REGULATION

NOFFEE was one of the staples
y that did not advance in price
with the war. 1t struggled
along manfully at little more than
the old prices until one day the gov
ernment laid hands on the market,
and since then coffee has been sky
rocketing along with other com
trolled" articles of food and the end
is not in sight. Government regu-
laeion in this. as in every other
instance, has been followed by ad-
vanced costs to the consumer.
The Food Administration might
md in this. as In other lines, hints
for action in a booklet just issued
by the National Bank of Commerce
OF New York. in which James S.
Alexander. the president, urges that
price fixing be abandoned as rapidly
as possible. The liquidation of
war conditions as promptly as is
consistent with the fulfllment of
our purpose in the war is highly to
be desired" says the writer, $50
that business may return to basis
of peace and the realization OF ie-
Eltimate profits"
The statement is made that prices
can be brought back to reasonable
levels without a commercial crisis
and that this fall need not serious
" impair profits in business proper
" adjusted and efficiently conduct
I'd to meet conditions tsansitorial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918
GIVE THEM MEMORIES

nARENTS who give their cnll-
dren a real old-fashioned Merry
Christmas give them more than
that-they give them memories, and
memories are worth more as the
years advance than gold or jewels.
They give them
Memories. images and precious
thoughts.
That shall not die. and cannot be
destroyed.
The stocking by the chimney-side,
the plate of candy toys, the be-
spangled tree hard by, the mystery
the anticipation and the realization
that made our happy dreams come
true-what is there in the lives of
any of us sweeter and dearer than
these, though in actuality they may
lie far back across the years, the
mere shadows of such Christmases
Past as Dickens made old Scrooge
see when he had his miraculous Wis
ions in the chapters of the Christ
mas Carol. Only with most of us
no BHOSl VI d uGdu anu SOuG JdCOD
Marley is necessary to recall them,
once a year at least, from the limbo
of the past and gone to the reality
of the present. Every year they
come drifting back to US, bright and
unsullied, to be lived all over again,
and loved, and fondled in the mind
and laid away for another twelve
months,
Think not that you have no time
to make Merry Christmas. Call up
the old days as you read this, smile
over them, shed n tear for them, il
you will, and then go forth with the
determination that you will do for
some other child what a loving ia
ther and mother did for you. Cele-
brate your Christmas as child
and it will be n season of laughter
and love, of mcrriment and JOY, and
you will be the better for 1t. Give
some boy or girl Christmas mem
ory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

employed to keep prices up or that
other artificial means should be
used for this end, an early decline
of prices to stnble levels being de-
sirable so that business can so
ahead on a sound basis.
There is much food for thought In
the booklet. which recites in gen.
eral way what has been illustrated
here by reference to the coffee mar
ket. Business is we'll able to shape
its own affairs and healthy competi-
ton will soon readjust prices. II per-
mitted. to a place where quotations
will be simply sufficient in most
cases to provide fair wages for en-
ployes and a decent proht for the
dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Not Beaten, but Finished

The Germans are submitting with
more or less grace to the Allied in
vasion of their country, but they re-
gard their army as still unbeaten
and capable of a more successful
fight in the next war. Battles and
campaigns are not subject to deci-
sion by an umpire under a fixed set
OF rules. Each side may deny de-
feat, though 1t may decide to run
away in order to fight another day.
It is true that the German army was
not surrounded and compelled to
surrender. nor was it destroyed, but
for four months 1t was in retreat be-
fore the Allies, suffering terribly in
killed and wounded as It hurried
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
TO ENGLAND

We had some trouble once before
Some stamps or tea stirred up a
row;
We fought you once on sea and
shore
We're proud to fight beside you
now!
Three years we watched your
Tommies stand.
Before the onslaughts of the Hun,
And meet death in a foreign land
Because a shameful wrong was
done.
You kept the thin red line" intact,
Held Paris safe against her foes;
Just whgt of guns and men you
The world now only halfway
knows
Out-planned, out-numbered, unpre-
pared,
Surprised, shocked, slaughtered,
still you stuck,
And what no sane men would have
dared,
You did! Thank God for English
pluck!
We watched that little army grow,
After those first months agony.
Your strong sons heard your bugles
blow,
Across the far-fung land and sea
Heard, and they answered to a man,
Whate'er their color, caste or creed.
Halfway across the earth's wide
span
They rushed to fill their mothers
need.
For three long years we stood aside
The why's and wherefores matter
not,
But that within our hearts the pride
At what you did was surging hot.
Now on the menacing gray sea
Our ships and yours pass on and
on,
Laden with men to set men free
From barbarous Germany's
treacherous spawn.
And side by side, with smile and
jest,
In tent or field or ambulance,
Our boys and yours the self-same
quest
Are making on the field of France.
England. whose might strides on be-
fore,
To strike the curse from Freedoms
brow,
We fought you once on sea and
shore
We're proud to fight beside you
now!
-Westmore Wilcox, Jr., in Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Wide Sleeping Experience
Private A. c. JONES' lin Butler, Mo-,
Democrat.


I've slept in cradle and I've slept
in arms when l was n baby, safe
from alarms; I've slept on the prairie,
shooting the goose, and slept in the
bush, hunting the moose. I've slept
on steamboat, my head on deck,
I've slept In a church. with a crick
in my neck; I've slept in wide fields
under the stars. and I've slept on
trains in ancient boxcars; I've slept
in beds OF purple and gold, and
slept In Flanders in mud and in cold.
I've slept IN a dugout with rat and
with mouse, and in France l have
slept in a fairly good house. I've
slept in a barn in an empty horse
STALL and I've slept In old sheds on
no beds at all. I've slept in billet
on a floor of haSd brick. and I've
slept on a bank alongside of n creek.
And now I'm sleeping on a stretcher
of wire, and l pray that my next
sleep will be near a fire. I'm tired of
wet and of mud and of cold. Oh.
when can 1 sleep in the old home
fold?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Propose Another Commission
(Altoona Tribune.l J

(Altoona IriDune.)
The agitation concerning a pro-
posed constitutional convention con-
tinues. One of the latest develop
ments consists of a scheme to Sc
cure the passage through the Legis-
lature of a measure providing for
the appointment of n commission,
to consist of about twenty-five per-
sons, whose duty it shall be to draft
n proposed constitution, to be sub
mitted to n convention which will
be provided for later. The idea
seems to be to save time and like
wise secure the best results by pro-
viding a complete constitution, the
product of expert talent, as a basis
for the work of the convention.
This seems to be a rather promising
idea, although the convention is
likely to tear the best possible work
of the best men of the state into
small bits. Still, much good might
come from such an agreement, and
it would certainly provide an intell-
Igent basis from which to carry on
the business of making u new con-
stitution. or course the commits
sion should be composed of worth
while men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
[From the New York MALL

= ONG before any German air.
plane or dirigible comes over
the ocean toward this city
American-invented and bulk ma
chimes will be speeding over the At
lantic in twenty-four hours or less,
This was the prediction made here
by one of the men connected with
DR.. William Whitney Christmas in
the manufacture of his new type of
war plane which, he believes, will
revolutionize aerial travel.
Speed and safety are the two
points claimed for the airplane de-
signed by Doctor Christmas, who is
known as tho eldest living investi-
of aero dynamics. He was a
co-worker witt. IJuvIUr Langley, in
ventor of heavier than air machines,
and has built several types of air
plane. In. 1913 he received the first
American aerial mail contract, but
as he had been compelled to use a
Gnome motor, the contract was can
celed.
The Christmas plane. looking
more like a giant bird than any type
of machine now in use, may soon be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
LABOR NOTES

New Albany Qnd.) policemen have
organized.
Textile workers in waltham, Mass,
are now fully organized.
Taft, Cal, is so well organized that
1t has 100 per cent. unions.
The Lackawanna Railroad system is
practically 100 per cent. organized.
Miners employed, in the Alaskan
mines receive $40 per day the year
round.
Canadian woman garment workers
have secured a working week of as
hours.
Employees of the American Express
Company have made a request for
higher wages,
Mattresses employed in the restau-
rants OF wichita Falls. Tex. have
formed n union.
Membership in the United Nine
Workers now totals 42s.7s1. of whom
s.4ls are CANADIANS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
KAISER HAS EARACHE

TINE eX-Kaiser has an earache.
We wish nobody anything be-
.yond his just deserts, but we
suspect there would be few tears
shed in America II 1t became gener-
ally known that there are no hot
water bags in Holland. that all the
ear specialists are on vacation and
that an earache dfops famine has
developed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Wouldn't Miss the Goose

Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph1
Surely you are not going 40 slay
that fowl" remarked the Bystander
to the man in Aesop's story as the
latter walked, AK in hand, toward the
goose that laid the golden egg.
'Yes, 1 am." replied the owner.
what" exclaimed the stranger.
''ahd that bird producing 1S-carRs
eEgs?"
4"Oh. shueks," responded the own
ef of the goose, II won't miss that
bird much I've got COW that's Civ
ing 7O-cent butter and .15-cept milk" I"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
More Baby Boys

Figures given in the quarterly re-
turn of the British registrar gem
eral show remarkable increase of
baby boys compared with girls.
From the average of 1,040 the rate
has sprung to 1.04S boys to each
1000 girls.
The birthrate has fallen from 24.1
in the year before the war to 17.S
in the third quarter of this year,
but the number of births was 5,925
greater than in the same period last
year.-F'rom the Continental Edl-
tion of the London Mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Grounds For Suspicion

The fellow, white or black. male
or female, big or little, who enter
ed our woodhouse one dark night
last week and stole therefrom a
brand new axe, costing US 81, we
believe is N thief.-Whlnut Ridge
Times Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

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and also the local news published
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All rights of republication of special
dispatch IS herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Theu Were Quite Ready

Word was sent by General PERISH
ing to a certain encampment COM
pffsIng 5000 negroes, that 1000 vol
unteers were wanted for an extra
hazardous piece of work. where
upon the entire enrolment stepped
forward and the officers had to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg war gardens
were about as profitable as any
in the cities of the state?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first amusement hall in Har-
risburg Is said to have been about
Second and Chestnut streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
But We Fear She Doesn't

If Mexico only knew what was
good for her she'd reform and be-
come an american winter resort.
There's mony in it.-Anaconda
Standard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Speaking of Prohibition

Some die-hards and bitter-enders
still believe this nation has too much
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

Be strong and Of good courage,
fear not, nor be dfrighted at them:
for Jehovah thy God, he it is that
doth 90 tcith thee; he toiH not fail
thee, nor forSdke thee.-Deat. SIG,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TEL AGRAPH PRINTING co.
Telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
E. ]. STACKPoLE
President aud Editor.in-Chief

r. r. OYSTER, Business Adndoer
GUS NJ. STEISMETz. Managing Editor
1. r. MICHESER. Circulation Manager
Executive Board
J. p. MCCULLOUGH.
BOYD NJ. OGELSBY,
F. II. OYSTER.
GUS. NJ. STEINMETz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
Lord of the Sabbath

cor tha aon of man Z Lord J
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

Entered at the Post Office in Harris
burg. Pa. as second class matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20

Mattresses employed in the restau-
rants of Wichita Falls. Tex. have
formed 4 union.
The record., 1918-09-19
Good by, Summer.

Oh, summertime, FAREWELL It's
time TO toll Your kne!l, and no one
sheds a sigh; you've been- on deck
SO long, you We spread 1t SO strong!
On, summertime good-by! Oh sum-
mertime, III books, you, with your
babbilng brooks, have had lot OF
praise; but people LOW on earth have
had thfi: moneys worth OF sizzling,
scurching days. he poets, Tyres
in arm, have often sung your charm
their melody enchInts; but no one
sees them rise to sing about you
flies, your chiggers and your ants.
Ihey sing of bosky del-s and zeph
yrs wearing bells, and sunsets ucf
and red; lhey have no language
sweet concerning pTickley heat, AIT
slice pless nighIs IL bed. Oh summit
f4de aud flee! Your Bana is twenty
three. your motto Is "AVauntn
You've pa. rs ali in bad. and all o
Us nave had a lot more than W.
wat. Oa, SsDrnersime so long
You live in tale aad song as some
thing grand and hnc: With ne ycl
suaEe 10 BIZ; Im Wiling to adlal
We lad enough in mine.
WALT MASON.
The record., 1918-09-19
Father Killed By His Son.

Bart Splnks, a well known farmer
of the Pleasant Hill community, in
the Earles section was shot and kill
led by his son, Irwin, 16 years old,
Tuesday afternoon. Father and son
had an alteration in the field where
they were working, and the boy
went to the home and got his clothes
and started to leave. The father
followed, and it is said attempted to
detaln the boy, who pulled revol-
yer and shot, deatr following. The
body was buried IN the Mercer grave
yard yesterday afternoon, and was
attended by host of relatives and
friends. Tie affair has created wide
attention, and has cast deep gloom
everywhere. The boy made no eff
fort to escape.
The record., 1918-09-19
Announcement,

Select your Vicirola for Christ
mas now. We planned months ago
so that you may have assurance of
an instrument if you arrange now for
1t. Stocks are low, all over the
country, as the demand has increased
vastly over any previous period, and
with scarcity of labor and lessened
material supply at the factory, the
usual shortage of VIctrolas at hoh-
day times will be more acute this
year than heretofore. Select your
instrument and have delivery made
when you wish.
The J. l.. Roark Estate.
The record., 1918-09-19
1915 Selects Go ''Over the Top"

At the registration of men I8 to
2I, and 3I-45, inclusive, last Thurs
day, old Muhlenberg surprised itself
by registering 3,7oo, which was
some 500 over the estimate made
by the Government. The five dis
tricts centerlng in town registered
ga, which is IS per cent. of the
whole in the county. There was the
most eager response to the order,
and at least three -fourths of the reg
lstration was completed by noon.
No disorder of any kind, and it
is not thought that there are any
slackers this time. There was am
pie volunteer force to take the reg
istratlon, and everything moved as
smooth as clockwork, though the
registration booths were crowded fol-
few hours during the morning,
everyone being anxious to enroll as
soon as possible. The local exemp.
tion board is busy preparing ques.
tionnaires, which will be mailed our
at once, and then the work of class
ificatlon will be entered upon. New
rulings as to railroad men and min
ers, placing them in deferred classes,
will make it harder on others, and
to make up the quotas which the
county will be called to furnish,
men engaged in non-essentials Will
be employed.