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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
Smart Silk FrOcks
Exceptional Values at S24.75

Silk frocks for all occasions, in all the seasons most popu-
lar materials and coors. Styles that fashion has accepted as
her own.
Dainty crepe de chines-rich taffetas with Georgette
sleeves-all-tafeta with the most exquisite Georgette collars,
friLs and cuffs.
Every good style and every fashionable color is repre-
sented, including plenty of navy blues and blacks. The most
bewitching lot OF dresses we have offered at $2475,
Other silk dresses at $2o75 and upward.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
Exquisite Party FrOcks

Beautiful Party Frocks of tulle, ~taffeta,
satin and chiffon. Gorgeous little affairs,
with rich gold and silver banding, sunbursts
of beads, etc. Reasonably priced.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
New Serge Dresses
Priced Very Lou at S29.75

These serge dresses will appeal particularly because of their
style, seryiceabihty and superior value. Nothing is better for
street or business wear than smart serge dresses, and we be-
heve YOU VIII agree with US, the garments offered at this price
are VERY UNUSUAL values.
Exceedingly elI-tailored of fine, soft French serge, in the
newest and most attractive modes; with dainty new collars
and smart braid and button trimming. We're sure you can
not match them anywhere at anywhere near $2s75.
Other serge dresses at all prices upward to $500 at a re-
markable value.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
IS THERE RELIEF -.
FROM UTILITIES
TAX OPPRESSION?
Continued From First Page.)

wise and unwlse expenditures it would
be better to raise the rate than to raise
the assessment. II the city raises the
assessment the state and county will
follow and perhaps make the same
raises and the taxpayer while bear
ing the burden of taking care OF the
elty's excuses also would be compelled
to assume the additional and dlscrimi-
natory burden Of making a further con-
tributlon 10 the state and county.
II is assume that the assessed value
of the class Of property mentioned is
around co per cent of the actual value.
Those owning furniture, automobiles
and jewelry In excess Of 1000 In value,
II they tell tho truth in their sworn
returns, pay still further taxes.
To get down to the gist OF the trouble,
It Is not with the man who owns a
small home, a large home, a manu-
featuring plant or a store or any other
institution assessed In Memphis and
who pays his taxes in Memphis. They
are doing their share and doing II with
a good deal less complaint than they
are entitled in the circumstances to reg
lister.
The trouble is with the public service
corporations assessed in Memphis by
the state board OF railroad commits
sioners sitting in Nashville. The small
property owner md the home owner,
and the owner Of big property, for that
matter, are paying on an average of so
per cent valuation while the corpora
tons are paying, in some cases, as low
as 20 per cent, and In hardly any case
IN excess Of So per cent Of their actual
value.
II the II lines Of railroads running
INTO Memphis; the two bridge con,pa-
MES, the two splendid union stations,
the telephone and telegraph companies
and other utilities much more in the
public eye, the street railway company
included, We're compelled to pay their
lust proportion of the taxes, the bur
den upon the people would be much
lighter and considerably more equitable.
Perhaps there will be surprise when
1t is stated that the gross assessed val
uation, as fixed by the railroad COM
mission, for the years 1917 and 1918
amounted to only S12, 245, 71O.SO for all
the utilities In Memphis excepting the
gas n electric company.
A big sum? Certainly. But how does
the assessment Of these utilities com
pare with the assessment Of the Mem
phis home?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
Capes and DOllnans

Fashion has given the lead this season to Dol
mans and Cape Coats, and with good reason.
They are exceedingly Chic and effective, good
looking and highly serviceable. We are showing
many pretty styles from $16,75 to $3.50.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24

Read News scimitar Wants.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
$3.50 Repp Tricotine $3.50

54-in. Repp Tricotine, an ideal fabric for max
ing fashionable capes, suits and separate skirts;
comes in such fashionable colors as field mouse,
taupe, old rose, French blue, brown, navy and
black; regular $3.50 value. on sale at $3.50 per
yard.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-24
Ind Remarkable Values at $24.75 to $500

Never have we had such variety to
choose from-there is a style for every
one. Materials include tricotine, Poiret
twills, silvertones, broadcloths, wool vel
ours, serges, etc, in navy blue, tan,
rookie and other popular colorings.
Prices range from $24,75 to $500.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
MIR. BEIDLEMAN'S GIFT

CENAToR Beidleman has earned
II the everlasting gratitude of
three of the most worthy char
table institutions of the city by dis
tributing among them $500, the
amount Of salary due him as a mem
ber of the State Senate for the term
which will expire on his assuming
the office of Lieutenant Governor
next Tuesday.
Under the law this compensation
had been regularly appropriated
and could not have been set aside
for any other than the personal use
of Senator Beidleman. He felt, how
ever, that he would prefer to divert
this money to the Children's Indus
trial Home, the Nursery Home and
Sylvan Orphans Home on the eve
of beginning his duties as the Sec
ond officer of the Commonwealth.
Senator Beidleman has always
manifested an interest in the three
institutions he has thus generously
remembered at time when they
needed help most and there will be
general approval of his public-spir-
tied philanthropy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
Liebknecht and the War
The Future Belongs the Peopeb (speche
ince the Beginning of the Co. s25

lists agree for long. Thus, although
likely to be half as many sorts of
Liebknecht belonged to that group
of Socialists who are justified in their
socialism by the result of the war, he
invented the so-called Spartacus
brand of socialism mentioned in the
cables in the months following peace.
The Spartacans hold that the Boil
sheviki are the real friends of the
proletariat and enemies of militar-
ism, and that Russia and Germany
should join forces against Anglo
Saxon capitalism. But the Spartacans
speedily split, in the manner of So
cialists. One Spartacan faction wish
ed to participate in the German cleo
tions for the National Assembly, with
intent either to mold it's character or
to smash it. But just after New
Years Rosa Luxembourg, second
only to Liebknecht in the position
above described of hostility to Ger
many's war policy, opposed Lieb-
knecht regarding the assembling of
the new German assembly, yet to be
held. Rosa declared that its meeting
must be prevented at all costs, and
her view prevailed over Liebknecht's,
SO to 20. 1t Is difficult to keep track
of the Socialist splits, and cannot
be done without understanding of
the Liebknecht doctrine, as set out in
his speeches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
The Spinster Problem,

English women and girls appear
repressed to an American. They
lack the ebullient and outspoken
franlSness of the Yankee girl. But
once in q while one of them speaks
her feelings freely and such q one
was the little munitions worker at
Ipswich. OF her escort, an Ameri-
can sailor, she asked:
do you think many of the Am
orleans and Canadians will stay over
here?"
He thought they would not and
said so.
I'VE English girls wish that they
would" she said and there was
something rather plaintive in the
way she spoke. You sec, even be-
fore the war, there were so many
more women than men in England
and now there must be three women
to every man.
Were just like other girls every
where; we want to marry and to
have homes OF our own. So many
of us never will, though. And not
to marry means that nearly all of
us will have to work for our living.
We've worked gladly these last four
years because we were doing 1t to
help in the war, but it will be hard
er when peace comes. We will have
to compete with the men then and
two-thirds of us will face the unend-
ing future OF work in shops or Offices
or factories.
''We thought perhaps some of
your men and some of the Canadians
would stay over here. We knew
the Australians would not; they
would not think of living anywhere
else than back here they came from.
And / guess it's the same way with
the Americans"
She spoke the tragedy of the Eng
lish girl, the brave hearted girl, who
for more than four years unfalter-
ingly has worked on the farms,
driven trucks and motor buses,
made guns and shells and gasses,
acted as policewoman, hotel clerk
and call girl, nursed the sick and
wounded and even built canton
ments in France. 1t Is tragedy for
her, but she will bear it with the
same high courage she bore the
other countless sacrifices the war
has demanded of her.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
N. Y. World RapS Kitcllin
(From the Fourth Estate)

(from the Fourth Estate)
Chairman Kitchin of the House
ways and means committee, the
same Kitchin that fathered the sec
ond-class postal zone law amend
ment to the war revenue bill. is n
Democrat, but here is what the New
York World says editorially, of
kitchin, under the head, Unto the
Ditch with Kitchin":
There is nothing improbable in
the report that Chairman Kitchin
angrily threatens to hold up the new
tax bill indefinitely unless the Sem
ate agrees to the restoration of the
zone system for newspaper and
magazine postage. This exatious
and burdensome device was imposed
upon press and people in the first
place by Mr.. Kitchin not so much
Tor revenue as for revenge, and the
further exhibition of intolerance
now promised is natural and logical.
Postal rates upon intelligence
increasing rapidly with the distance
from offices of publication, thus dis
couraging If not destroying q ma
tional press, are in keeping with the
parochial ideas of taxation which
have governed the House under Mr..
kitchin's leadership. In his personal,
political and sectional prejudices
too readily accepted by his associ-
ates. he and the Democratic party
may find the reasons why the new
Congress is to be Republican in both
branches.
"Obstructing the enactment of the
new revenue bill to nurse n grudge
against a press which has been too
outspoken to please him will infiict
hardship upon every element of the
population. Mr.. Kitchin's revenges,
therefore, are no longer specific, and
it is possible that in this fact his
colleagues will find reason at last
to repudiate O leadership at once
bigoted and destructive.
"A defeated party can hardly af-
ford to make the people regret that
they did not impose more drastic
punishment upon it. Democrats
may live down the memory of their
Kitchins in time, but they will not
shorten the period of disfavor by
following them into the last bitches
of obstinacy."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
Palestine Danger Point

(Herbert Adams Gibbons in the
Century MagaZine)
When the British army entered
Damascus, the French fleet sailed
into Beirut Harbor. If Asiatic
Turkey, is to be apportioned to the
victorsA whatever modus vivendi
may be arranged for the time being.
it is certain that Palestine must
fall eventually under the protector
ate of the power that controls Syria
or the power that controls Egypt.
Which power will get Palestine?
Doctor Weizmann has already
given the answer of the Internation-
alist Zionist Commission in his
memorable speech at Jerusalem in
April. He stated categorically that
"Zionists do not believe in the in
ternationalization of Palestine or in
any form of dual or multiple poll
tical control over Palestine, whose
integrity must be protected by one
just and fairly responsible guar
dian" The lone just and fairly
responsible guardian" in Doctor
Weizmann's opinion, was already
there: for, when speaking these
words, he turned to Gen. Sir Ed
mund Allenby.
The grand rabbi of France stated
few months ago that there are
only. a hundred thousand Zionists in
the world outside of America, that
most of the Zionists in France are
OF Russian or Rumanian origin, and
that Jews of French birth. IL inter-
ested at all in Zionism, were inter-
ested only out of sympathy with
those who wanted to go to Palestine
to escape persecution. Zionism Is
not a pious desideratum on our part.
What French Jews are interested in
Is liberty and equality in this coun-
try for all religions" But as a
Frenchman and not as Jew, the
grand rabbi and all other prominent
French Jews are exceedingly
anxious that Zionism be not used to
deprive France of her traditional
past and her legitimate future place
in the Near East.
And French Jews fear that Zion
ism may thus revive anti-Semitism
in France. French Catholics and
French imperialists are determined
that Palestine shall not be British.
French Socialists, sensing future
trouble, have repeatedly declared
for territorial and political disinter-
estedness of both nations in Pales-
tine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
The Troopers Lament

Dear old Bill, your bit is done!
Alas! You too must go!
Many's the mile you've carried me
In battles ebb and flow.
How gay you pranced, proud head
on high,
To music on parade;
How fleet you raced but yester eve
The foes rear guard to raid.
You swan the river through the
hell
OF lead from hidden guns.
BY George! How bravely up the
bank
You rushed the fleeing Huns.
Not once you 'hinched though
screaming shells
Burst on the very ground
Der which, full speed, the flanking
host
You. charged with mighty bound.
Blighters! They've got you in the
leg
smmashed fiat, old chap, no
hope
Ne'er again DER dusty pike
You'll take me at a lope.
What's that? You'd like to say
goodbye?
Want me to lift your face?
With all my heart. Here, Look
this way!
You've earned a last embrace.
God knows hate to leave you, Bill,
1 hoped you'd see 1t through.
I'll mourn YOU when the bugles
blow.
Adieu, brave heart, adieu!
John b. Foster,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15

carries with 1t inability of people
to get away from undesirable
, dwellings even when they have the
money. and you have state OF af-
fairs that Is intolerable. Either. as
the Mayor suggests, we must compel
owners to make their houses livable
or the buildings must be closed.
There is just now in this country
much talk as to how we are to pre-
vent the Bolsheviki from gaining a
foothold here. Bolshevikism is the
child of discomfort. and discomfort is
the result of unemployment, of op-
preston and of bad living condi-
tions generally. The tumble-down
home is a seed bed for discomfort.
Give a man a decent living and a
proper place in which to live and
Bolshevikism will be his last
thought.
What are we going to do to re-
move this menace in Harrisburg?
AS to the joint city hall and court
house-Council and the County
Commissioners have the whole city
back of them in that project. A new
and adequate building would cost
little more in the long run than the
scattered offices OF city and county
do now and the city Is in a mood to
make its own public offices corre-
spond in dignity and appearance to
those of the state. The city and
county bonding capacity is such as
to permit of the expenditure without
thought of running too close to the
wind financially, and 1t is to be hoped
that the Mayors message will be the
final spur that will get the project
into rapid motion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
runs in the Liebk-
necht family. During the Fran


co-Prussian war, in the year of
the birth of his son, Karl, the faith
er, Wilhelm Liebknecht, refused to
vote for Germany's war budget, and
was arrested for high treason. Thirty
five years later Karl voted for the
war budget, but attacked the war
policy of his country so fiercely that
he was sentenced to thirty months
penal servitude. Two of his speeches
are notable. One criticised Germany's
system of education as perverted to
propaganda for militarism and cap
italism. The other condemned Ger
many's manner of starting and car
rying on the war as "monstrous,"
even when tested by the standard of
war. No allied spokesman has been
more severe on these heads than this
member of the Reichstag and Prus-
sian Assembly, who was more loyal
to his socialism than to his country.
In truth, Liebknecht was a citizen
of the world rather than of Germany,
and stands for many truths demon
strated in the war and accepted by
every enemy of Germany. But his
loyalty to socilism is like that of
other Socialists-it is loyalty to his
personal conception of socialism.
Wherever Socialists gather there is
socialism, for hardly any two Social
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
GETTING UNDER WAY

THERE is universal approval in
city and county of the PROPOSE
tion to lose no time in the
erection of a joint building which
will house the city and county off,
cials and provide adequately for the
conduct of the public business.
OF course, it is important to de-
termine early the matter of location
and there is strong sentiment in
favor of site on the proposed civic
center which is developing through
the cooperation of the city and the
State. 1t is believed that the sale of
the present site of the Court House
and jail would be good business and
step forward in the improvement
of the city.
The County Commissioners are
giving full consideration to the SUBJ
ject and while they have reached no
conclusion they are certain to take
some definite action in the near
future.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
Getting Back to Their Jobs
(From the Indianapolis News)

(From the indianapolis Eews)
The vast and trying problems of
industrial reconstruction involved in
the transition from a war to a
peace basis have wrinkled the brows
of our foremost political and schol-
astic authorities, but not the fair
forehead of Miss Elizabeth Marbury,
prominent New York business wom-
an and war-relief worker. She had
heard something about the Difficult
ties of getting several million men
back to their old jobs, the "dilution
of labor" the economic wage"
versus the real wage, ETC., but such
matters she passes over with q gay
wave of the hand. Talking to a
soldier audience recently she said:
Somebody told me some of the boys
coming back were worrying about
the girls having their Jobs and won-
dered what to do to get them back.
That's easy. Marry 'em, boys:
marry emf
There are. of course, some objec-
tions to the scheme. Not a few
soldiers already have wives. Laws
and morality would prevent their
taking another, no matter how de-
sirable the job In prospect. Here
and there, too, may be q woman
stubbornly\ prefers job to a hus-
band. more serious and discour-
aging objection arises from the
probability that wholesale marry
ing off of working girls to soldiers
would lead into gainfui employment
countless thousands of other women
who had not formerly worked.
Eventually the number of feminine
job holders might become greater
than the supply of available hus-
bands. But Miss Marburys scheme
has merits. 1t will work If the right
soldier and the right jobholder meet
in the right way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY is, 1919
PROVIDE WORK FOR ALL
.HILADELPHIA is arranging an
important program of public


important program of public
work that has been deferred
during the war. Like all other
municipalities the metropolis is
arranging to make available all pub
lie funds set aside for undertakings
that will provide employment for
returning soldiers and all others
who may become idle through cam
collation. of war contracts.
Harrisburg is no Stacker in any
a disposition among the municipal
officials and heads of departments
to so shape their programs that
there will be no delay with the COM
ing of Spring in going ahead with
the various enterprises that are
under consideration.
But the burden must not be left
entirely TO municipal corporations.
Every private concern and individ-
ual should at this time consider we'll
how large the activities of the year
may be with respect to new work
and the enlargement of old enter
prises. No more patriotic or con-
structive policy can be adopted than
that which has to do with the pro-
fitable employment of our people in
every line of endeavor A prosper
Gus community depends upon busy
community.
Naturally, there will be some hesi-
tation on account of the high level
of prices for material and the wage
scale. but in any readjustment we
must consider the new conditions
and proceed with due regard for the
higher levels which are inevitable
in the costs of manufacture and con-
sumption.
60 far as possible it may be as
sumed the various heads of depart
ments in our municipal organiza-
tions will outline the years activi-
Ties at once so that orders for need
ed materials can be placed and thus
avoid delay with the opening of
spring. Four -handiness will mean
greater activity later in the year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
CITY AND STATE

A 5 -Governor-e C
II the present Senator from this
district may be expected next
Tuesday to say something worth
while regarding the pleasant rela-
tions subsisting between city and
State. His long service on Capitol
Hill has given him unusual oppor-
tunities for cemeting the good feel
ing which prevails between Harris
burg and the official life of the
Commonwealth and he is in position
to pledge the cooperation which
will continue in the making of a de-
lightful seat of government not only
insofar as this may include the pub
lie grounds, but also as 1t may con-
template the environment of the
Capitol.
Senator Beidleman is deeply in
terested with other State officials in
working out the comprehensive plan
of treatment for the Capitol Park
area and through him those who
represent the State in public posi-
ton may be assured of the friendly
interest of the city and its people
in all that pertains to the welfare
of the Commonwealth and those in
official life on Capitol Hill.
In the near future the Chamber
of Commerce will give a reception in
honor of the State officials and men,
bers of the Senate and House and
the opportunity will thus be given
for further cementing the-pleasant
ties which bind together the Com
monwealth and this municipality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15

garding the Attorney Generalship is
not known locally. It is confidently
believed here, however, that his am
bition now is to be relieved of his
connection with the government as
soon as he can consistently do do.
Certainly q $4,000 a year Cabinet
place would offer no special incen-
tives. His acceptance of the post
We're 1t offered to him would be in
line with his past record of sacrifice
ing self to the interests of the ma
t1on:. In no single instance has this
spirit of self-sacrifice on his part
been SO manifest as in his labors
throughout the war as Alien Prop
erty Custodian"