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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
MORE IMPORTANT

FORT WAYNE newspaper is en-
IA deavoring to ascertain senti-
ment in Indiana on the Re-
publican candidacy for President
next year. General Wood appears to
lie a great favorite, although not a
resident of that State, with Good
rich. New and Watson figuring also
in tic running.
The results are entertaining, but
rot important. What Republicans
are interested in is the kind of a
program their leaders will formu.
late for next year. More depends
upon the stand the party takes upon
inany of the vital questions of the
dey than upon the selection of the
Presidential candidate. If the plat
form is defective or lacking, even
% man as strong as General Wood
might have hard shedding.
The Republican party must go
before the people with q safe. sane,
progressive and constructive decla-
ration of principles if it is to win.
The people are tired of theories and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
STATES RIGHTS

"HE Sproul administration is to
be commended for the manner
in which it has taken up the
task of looking after the rights of the
State in two important instances.
Probably the average man in the
street does not realize just exactly
what the vigorous policy of the sec
ond State in the union means but
some day people will understand
that the Commonwealth which has
always stood for the union has been
foremost in the battle to have the
States given u square deal.
Pennsylvania has insisted in suits
in court this year that it has the
right to regulate its internal affairs
and that war emergencies can not
he stretched as reasons for Federal
control far beyond the time of dan
ger. 1t has demanded that the
rights of it's citizens to natural re-
sources upon which they depend be
safeguarded and that the people of
PENNSYLVANIA be given the beneht
of their investments.
Unusually interesting questions
have arisen and they have been met
as every Pennsylvania not holding
down a Federal job would have them
met.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
The Song of The BolSheDiki

They are for the gink who shirks,
curses on the guy who works, is the
way the snarling Bolsheviki plan;
off the wearers of white collars, also
those who've earned their dollars,
murder-and they are with you to a
man.
They're not much for making laws,
but when it comes to wagging jaws,
they can spot your old Victrola quite
a few; down with simpletons and
fools, who are preaching go to
schools, learnings something that's
handicap to you.
If you own a share of stock, they
want to lead you to the block, old
Nick Lenine's message we'll repeat;
he'll accept with many thanks, all
the dough that's in the banks, for a
thinker and a drinker has to eat.
Try and build a home, and you're
fiooey in the dome, bar of soaps
a thing from which they flee; no use
at all for juries, but they're awful
strong for breweries, and they blame
it all on old Democracy.-By G. o.
MacConachie, ship worker in the
Harlan News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Where Patriotism Fails

TFrom the Kansas City Times
A Kansas City man writes to this
department to complain that a tele-
gram from st. Paul, filed in that
city at 747 Saturday evening, re-
ceived in Kansas City at 9.36 the
same evening. was not delivered at
his home until lao Sunday morn
ing.
Can you beat it?" demands the
infuriated Kansas City man. And
to think, the government has in
creased the rate in order to give us
that kind of service. The man who
sent the message paid the increased
rate under the misapprehension that
it would be sent through in a hurry.
But why does the man complain?
Why not rejoice as becometh patriot
ism, even at the hour of LAO Sunday
morning, when called from a COM
Portable bed and a sound sleep. Why
not take the patriotic view of it.
Why not say:
Look at this now. Here is a tele-
gram which required only seven
hours to come from st. Paul, Mimi,
to Kansas City, Mo. That puts an
end to all this reasonable CONVEX
sation about Secretary Burleson
sending kilograms by freight trains
instead of electricity. 1t also nails
the campaign lie that you can make
better time to send messages by ex-
press than by wire. I'm going out
the first thing in the morning and
cover the money of that knocker
Jones, who offered to bet me yester-
day that he could walk to st. Paul
and beat the time of telegram by at
least two hours. He must be a pro-
German"
But instead of taking this patrio-
tic view of the matter, here comes
the infuriated citizen with a letter,
written. we fear, before devotions on
the Sabbath morning, actually COM
planning because it required seven
houRs to get an important message
from st. Paul to Kansas City. four
hours and two minutes of which time
was required to deliver it to his home
after it was received in Kansas City,
No wonder our good Secretary Burle-
son complains of the ingratitude of
the public.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
THE SUPREME DESIRE

1t was their welcome home-the
cloud scraping towers of Manhattan
brilliantly white in the warm spring
sun, the dancing plumes of steam,
the shrilling, believing, roaring
whistles and the slamming of the
bands; after weary months of
French rain and mud and waiting
this was their welcome home.
A tug came slapping down the
harbor through the white caps to
meet them, as a Kansas City soldier
relates the incident. Aboard were
several lounging, oil stained men in
dungarees, two fellows wearing
derby hats ("Boy howdy-derby
hats )-and, standing alone, ador-
able, supreme, on the little rallied
deck over the pilot house that the
war wrecked world affords, an
American girl!
Wherever, on the tugboat's side
of the transport, there was a place
to stand or cling or hang or straddle
in short, the starboard side was
a-swarm with o. D.; and the fiutter-
ing, deliciously cool and serene focus
of every pair of eyes was her lowell
ness. the first American girl.
Shouldering the harbor wavelets
brusquely to this side and to that,
the tug approached as near as safe
ty would permit beneath the steel
side and-just like that-she found
him. standing in plain sight among
q certain number of thousands just
exactly like him. ct has been noted
that young wives who come out on
tugboats to meet young husbands al
ways spot the needle in the hay
stack-to employ a most unnautical
metaphor). Two microscopic white
hands fluttered. two brown ones
reached-with heart throbbing fu-
tility, while the flung spray and the
seagulls spun and reeled between.
The white hands were cupped to
form a pathetic megaphone, but the
voice. clear, cool, went to the ears
and heart of every Yank.
Hello, dear! What-do-you-
want-for-dinner?
AS with one voice and in a mighty
Yank roar came the heartfelt an
swer from n certain number of thou
sand throats:
"HAM-AND-EGGS!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
EDITORIAL COMMENT

There's only one end when Miss
Liberty rides Anarchy tiger. They
come back from the ride with the
lady inside and smile on the face
of the tiger.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Let us confine the waving of the
red flag to our railroad crossings
Dearborn Independent.
Those who once were saying
"Amen" to the League idea, now
merely cry Amend" Newark
News.
Peace without victory" seems to
have shifted around to victory with
out peace.-New York Call.
If ever a place was misnamed it
is changel.-Portand Oregonian.
The Koreans have been doing
their best to signal to Japan that
they, too, are a proud and sensitive
Washington Star.
The Presidents desire to recognize
Lenine ought to bring snort of
sardonic mirth from the Shade OF
Huerta.-New York Evening Sun.
It's reported Trotzky has ordered
the Russian fleet to sea. We thought
all Russia had been at sea for the
last two years.-Newark News.
It has come to the point where a
body has to earn twice as much as
he is worth in order to get half
enough to live on.-Jefferson City
Dem ocrat- Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
SIDE BY SIDE

THOUSANDS of wv elc m e
l. Home" banners appear in the
front windows of Harrisburg homes,
and very properly so.
But have you noticed how many
are displayed in windows devoid of
Victory Loan posters?
The place for these cards is side
by side.
If you put up a welcoming card,
see to it that your patriotism is
guaranteed by Victory Loan card
to keep it company.
Those Victory Bond posters will
give the Homecoming soldiers far
more pleasure than all the "Wel-
come Home" cards your windows
will hold.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

experiments. They want to get back
to firm ground. They want to be
sure that the party to be placed in
power the next four years has a
fixed policy that will not be like a
weathercock in the wind, as the
Wilson administration has been and
is. But they also want the Repub-
lican party to apply to the problems
that recent years have developed the
intelligence and patriotism that in
the past fifty years have made the
United States under Republican
Presidents the greatest nation in
the world.
The party program is the thing;
the matter of candidate will take
care of itself. What the people
want to know now is, what does the
Republican party mean to do for the
country; not who is it going to run
for President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Cecil CheSterton'S Last Book

"It is a common and obvious thing
to saw when a man dies that he has
left nobody behind him who can quite
iii his place" says literary critic
in the New Statesmap. But of
Cecil Chesterton this is true. He was
never happy except when discussing
an intelligent problem, and l should
not be surprised to learn that even
during his last illness he expounded
theology or politics to the doctors at
his bedside. He would stand in a
Fleet Street bar, a short, stout. jovial
6oure calculating Roman dogma,
explaining the precise limits of the
theory. and the ascertained facts of
evolution in Darwin and the post
Darwinians, or sketching the Consti-
tntion of the United States" AS re-
cards the latter occupation he en-
tered very thoroughly into it short
time before his death and George H.
Doran Company will soon publish
Chesterton's last book, "A History
of the United States
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
"keeping Up appearances"

If. II. Young in the Providence,
K. l., Journal.I
Perhaps there is somewhere u
point at which the recipient OF an
income is able to cease from worry
over the cost of living and the mani
told problems oil adjusting the outSo
to the income, in way to break
eVAa If there can be no provision for
Il surplus. There is Il popular belief,
Tor instance, that Mr.. Rockefeller is
free from this worry and undoubted-
ly there are others, although the
number who are not compelled to
give some heed to their expenditures
-is considerably smaller than is gen.
orally supposed.
Some OF the millionaires, and even
the multi-millionaires, do not en-
tirely escape these problems. When
mans wife announces, and at least
one such instance is on record, that
she needs $4,000 u year for dress
and that it is impossible for her to
live in a manner betitting her station
on a personal allowance of less than
5000, it is easy to see how the
husband may have u few financial
worries. With some of these special
object lessons we can understand
why it is that in some circles an IN
come of $4,000 or so is regarded as
a synonym for wretched poverty.
The size of any income, of course,
is merely relative. 1t is big or lettle,
not only in comparison with other
incomes, but in proportion to its pos
sessor's obligations, needs, desires,
habits, and point of view. 1t seems
safe to say that in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, it seems dispro-
portionately small, whether 1T
amounts to $500 or to $4,000.
But the continuous financial bur-
den to the average man is imposed
by his own or his family's effort to
keep up appearances" This is a
fancied obligation from which COM
naratively few persons are absolutely
free. 1t undoubtedly presses with
greatest force upon those who have
to support families upon what are
popularly called comfortable sal
aries" for they have certain tastes
that must he measurab'y realized,
md any social intercourse whatever
,ntails certain requirements that
cannot be ignored. They have to live,
and to some extent. at least, they
have to keep up with Lizzie"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Measuring the Days Work
[From Answers, London.1

From Answers, London
The most difficult task of the GOAL
commission seems to be to discover
how much coal cutting is fair days
work for a collier. 1t appears that in
a good place" a man will cut four
tons of coal in a shift, yet the yearly
output of coal per man was only 220
tons last year.
1t is rather interesting to glance at
other forms of work, and to see just
how much other toilers do in d day
Take plowing for instance. The man
who, with a single plow, turns an
acre in a day, is well earning his
money. In completing his task, he
will have walked and guided the
plow about fourteen miles.
Harvesting in the old days used to
be slow work, and the man who cut
by hand half an acre of wheat was
doing well. With modern horse
cutter and binder one man, with the
assistance of two "shockers," has
been known to cut and bind twenty
acres of wheat in one day.
At one time the setting of three
hundred bricks was considered a
days work for a bricklayer. But at
piecework, and using a special soft
mortar. a man has been known to
lay 1,400 bricks during an S-hour
day and to continue this average for
DAYS on end.
Packing fruit is no easy task. Take
oranges, for instance. These average
one hundred and fifty to the box, and
each fruit has to be separately wrap
ped in paper. Seventy boxes is con-
sidered n very fair days work, but
n man has been known to pack one
hundred and twenty boxes in a 10
hour day. He had to handle and wrap
eighteen thousand oranges to ac-
comp'ish this task.
The work our men did in France
when marching in full kit as far be-
yond that of an ordinary laborer. The
worlds marching record is held by
| n detachment of the London Rifle
Brigade. In April. 1914, these men
siXty-two in number-marehed from
| London to Brighton, a distance of
| fifty-two miles, in fourteen hours.
twenty-three minutes. They were in
full kit, and carried rifles, total
weight of forty-two pounds, yet not
a man fell out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
CLEAN UP; FIX Up

n HAYOR KEISTER has done
M we'll to add "ax-up" to his
cleanup" week proclama-
ton.
Many persons have postponed re-
pairs to house or premises that 9TH
erwise would have been made, be-
cause they felt that no money or ef-
fort should be taken from the ma
tion's war effort during the conflict
There are boardwalks to be repaired
fences to be Strengthened, lawns to
be trimmed, flower beds to be re-
juvenated, houses to be repainted
and steps to be replaced.
Now is the time to do the work
You must spend the money event
ually; why not now, when labor
needs the work, and while the citys
campaign is at it's height?
Clean up; fix up; make Harris
burg the cleanest, best-looking
town IN the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

james f. Woodward, who be-
comes secretary of internal affairs
tomorrow, has been head of a biz
hospital in McKeesport for years.
j. H. Scattergood, Philadelphia
broker, has been visiting the Verdun
region to see how work is being car
ried out with Philadelphia aid.
DR.. H. ]. Cadbury, who got in
trouble at one of the colleges near
Philadelphia for his war sentiments.
will take a Biblical chair at Andover.
j. William Stroh, head of the
Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows
organization, marshalled the big
parade at Sunbury.
&C. c. Zantzinger, Philadelphia
architect, has been chosen vice-pres-
ident of the national organization of
architects.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
REMEMBRANCE

Let not the world remember you,
By any greater thing or less,
Than that upon a reed 1 blew
A song to praise your loveliness,
Let not the world remember me
(If immortality should crown
A line of verse, when empery
In the vast waves of time goes
DOWN..
BY any greater thing or less,
Than one good song / made and
sung
To praise your love and loveliness,
One evening when the world was
young!
Theodore Maynard in the
New Witness (London).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

What is troubling many honest-to-
goodness Americans, is why certain
prominent statesmen strongly urged
US to avoid entangling alliances with
other powers, less than four years
ago. and now play the role of the
Pied Piper in leading us into a COM
Iination such as could not have been
even dreamed of when we broke into
the war. Modern diplomacy and
statesmanship seem to involve ground
and lofty tumbling and the ability to
face in two directions at the same
time. And. speaking of alliances. il
VIII be noted that the world is m
dulging in a sort of free-for-all
guessing match as to just what the
League of Nations will or will not do
III actual operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

ger and stronger figure in world poll
tics to-day. and certainly much more
popular In this country. IL he had
decided to stay at home and help
Congress put the Nation back on
its feet, instead of trying to make
himself the greatest statesman in the
world by going off to Europe at a
time when his presence at home
might have saved business from
embarrassment and many workmen
from months of idleness.
By all means let him come home
and summon Congress to clear up
the mess the administration and the
war together have created.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
ABOUT TIME

ISPATCHES from Washington
indicate that President Wilson
- means to call Congress into
special session not later than June.
The call cannot come too soon.
Ordinarily the country breathes a
sigh of relief and settles down to
business in earnest when Congress
goes home, but just now the crying
need of the Nation is for Congress
to get together. and everybody with
an interest in the welfare of the
people in general and the return of
the country to peace basis desires
an carly session.
The President, to the minds of
many, would have been much big
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
When Earth Hears the Corn

And it shall come to pass in that
day, ] will hear. saith the Lord, I
will hear the heavens and they shall
hear the earth: and the earth shall
hear the corn, and the wine, and the
oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.-
Hosea ii. 81 and %
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

bought the coal under the school
properties.
Judge James I. Brownson, of
washington county, will be cam
didate for election to the full term.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Fully Qualified

That Virginia private who wears
n No. Is shoe is the fellow who
ought to be sent overseas to keep his
foot on Germany's neck.-Charleston
News and Courier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Strasbourg Again IS
the "City of Storks"

After
to Home
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
Daniels ThdnkfulneSS

I thank thee and praise thee, .
God of my fathers, who hath given
me wisdom and might, and hast
made known unto me now what we
desired of thee.-Daniel ii. 2S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05

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dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG

Just 100 years ago the agitation
for the construction of the canal to
this city was being voiced at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg workmcn
helped build ships during the
war and some are still en-
ployed at the yards?
The spectator., 1919-05-23

Bill Jerry James is rejoicing over the bread and milk he ate Sunday. (Bill Jerry's actions Sunday and since shows he is a wise guy. -Ed.)
 Pearl Patrick, Clara Turner, Beulah Davis, Mir. and Mrs. Dick Wells, Delmer Johnson, Walter Standridge, Claud Turner. Jesse Ketchem, Robert Carpenter, Jeff and Champ Patrick took dinner at Fred Mullen's Sunday. (The Spectator join MT. Mullen's large circle of friends in extending to him their deep sympathy in his sad loss.
 Champ Patrick car must have had only a light case of measles Tn it's vicinity as we notice it made two trips to Turner's Bend Saturday and Sunday.
 If the goblins don't git us we'll come again soon. Two Green Horns.
 The gobins may not get you, buff you don't watch out Champ Patrick and a few others will get you and you'll be a couple of blowed-up green horns. Ed.
 Rev. s. A. Teague attended the High School closing at Clarks- vile this week and heard the ad- dress Thursday evening by Dr. Kirkpatrick of Ft. Smith.
The spectator., 1919-05-23

the American way of fighting or plaiyng either. They are by nature . rather conservative people and do not go into any thing with the rush and pep" the Americans do.
 They have no idea of sanita- tion as we know it and most of them live in the same house with their stock. Neither do they have any plumbing or elec- tric lighting and in fact they live about like we did . century ago.
 1 don't know whether the read CTS are wanting to read this klnd of dope or net SO will quit here and next week will send in what news there is in this sec. tion of the country.
 Former Pvt. Harley Hanson"
The spectator., 1919-05-23
HERE AND THERE
Rain, nothing but rain.

Rain, nothing but rain.
 George Patrick left Sunday for Jenks, Oklahoma.
 Church at s. s. was well at tended Sunday. People here and there brought their children. Lawrence and Lee Gray and Walter Standridge returned home Thursday from overseas. We are more than glad to have tn ose brave boys back home with us again.
 Wonder why Vivian Brand wasn't at church Sunday? Can it be true that she has been in the Jethro vicinity and caught the measles or humps?
 We noticed Miss Nola Bunch
  of Jethro was able to attend church Sunday. Probably the humps are not so bad after all. Wonder why Herman Rogers and Cleston Brand wore such long faces Sunday afternoon? Surely they are not taking the Jethro measles.
 Mrs. Bertha Harris of Watalu. la visited her parents near Jethro last week.
 Wonder how Miss Myrtle liar ris enjoyed herself Sunday after noon.
The spectator., 1919-05-23
Teachers Institute.

Notice is hereby given that the Teachers Institute for the Ozark District of Franklin County will convene at Ozark on June 23rd and continue for five days.
 An able corps of instructors from the state superintendent 8 office will direct the work. This will be rare opportunity for our teachers. and is hoped that ev- cry teacher will so arrange mat ters as to attend every day. ,
 Since our entry into the Great War We have permitted 2 cer- tain degree of relaxation with regard to enforcement of the regulations pertaining to institute attendance. This was thought justifiable in view of the scarci- ty of labor and the urgent necessity of production of food crops. Now that the war is over and the need of better equipped teachers more apparent than ever if our country is to keep abreast of the educational wave that is sweeping the country, teachers must attend.
 Let us work together to equip ourselves for the greater respon- abilities of the years to come.
 Better salaries will be paid for better teachers. Let us see to it that the teachers of Franklin County are not behind those of other counties.
 A strict record will be kept, in conformity to law, of attend ance, and certificates of same will be issued to each teacher.
 Very respectful
 w. 1. AGEE, Co. Supt. Ozark. Ark. May 23, 1919.