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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08

or not, to have some form of day
light saving for itself next year
but the matter would be very much
simplified if the biggest and most
powerful city in the country would
take the initial step.
But New York must not expect to
get this beneficial legislation with
out fight. The insidious interests
that were instrumental in the defeat
of the daylight saving" bill in Con-
gress will bring their influence to
bear on the New York aldermen.
The public must make it's position
clear. 1t must let the aldermen
know that it is in earnest and is go
ing to have the extra hour of day
light in one form or another.
Harrisburg and all other cities
are looking toward the metropolis.
New York takes the step all other
towns worth the name will follow
and Congress will receive a whole
some lesson anent the folly of
trifiing with popular sentiment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
GoDernor Sproul on Thrift
philadelphia Evening Bulletinl

Philadelphia Evening Bulletinl
In asking Americans to quit living
in a FOOLS paradise and get back to
habits of hard work and thrift, Gov
ernor Sproul has issued a trumpet
call which should be needed. The
situation is dangerous for the
American people when they act as
if there had been no war and that
everything was to be better than
ever. People are spending money
for unneceSsaries, are selling Lib
erty bonds to buy luXuries, and are
not saving at a time when it is nee
eSsary for them to conserve all of
their resources.
1t is amazing that people cannot
see that the present condition of in
flation must come to an end. We
have spent as much in three years
as in all our previous history put to-
gether. We are in debt about
twenty-five billions of dollars, and
that sum must be paid before we
may consider ourselves in good
financial condition. Many persons
are acting as if it were the highest
economy to live on the interest of
their debts.
When other nations are suffering
there is no reason to suppose that
we can escape some of the burdens
of the world conflict which de-
stroyed the accumulated property of
centuries. These must in large
measure be restored. We must do
our share in some way or other, but
in any event we must pay our own
debts and practice fundamental
principles of economy. 1t is a good
time to get down Poor Richards
Almanac" and study it's content
Too many persons have a notion
that continuation of the present
condition is certain and that they
may spend their money foolishly
without danger.
War makes no nation richer. II
ought to make any nation thrifty
and there should be constant saw
ings in days of plenty against the
inevitable decline. The man who
in this day follows the Governors
advice and keeps his expenditures
below his income can face the fu-
ture with safety. Others cannot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
PRESIDENTIAL GIFTS

VTYHY worry because President
wv and Mrs. Wilson received a
few gifts from royalty or
others abroad? To be sure, the
Constitution expressly forbids the
chief executive of the United States
from accepting gifts from foreign
governments or rulers, but the pres
ent case is so far removed from the
dangers which the trainers of the
Constitution evidently feared that
there would seem to be small harm
in ignoring any technical violation.
When the President went abroad,
all Europe recognized its obligations
to America in ending the war, and
1t was from full hearts that the peo-
pie of countries and cities united in
the giving of tokens to the Presi-
dent, and the same applies to rulers
and high officials. 1t was not so
much Mr.. Wilson, but the whole
American people, that these presents
were intended to honor. He hap
pened to be the representative, the
authorized spokesman, that is all,
and it would be showing scant cour-
tesy to order the gifts returned. The
whole incident has been exagger-
ated at all events.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
The Labor Shortage

than sellers market" in any COM
modify that business men habitually
buy and sell.
A sellers market" lin a commodity
commonly expresses itself in terms
of money only; a sellers market"
in labor expresses itself both in
terms of more money and in conces-
sions, which are the equivalent of
money-in shorter hours, the recog-
milton of unions, the adoption of
profit-sharing systems, and variety
of other concessions. A sellers
market in a commodity is settled
by a pickering between two men
about price; but a sellers market"
in labor involves large groups of
men on both sides, and is accom-
panied by strikes and other more
or less violent manifestations.
This shortage in the supply of
labor, and the opportunity which it
gives to labor to get large conces-
important of all the causes that
compose the present tension. Many
ardent persons among the intel
lectual revolutionists say that the
law of supply and demand is super
seded mad that something new is
coming to take it's place. The truth
is that the working of the law of
supply and demand was never so
conspicuous as right now. Only, be-
cause it is running SO strongly in
favor of labor, the intellectual rev.
olutionists do not recognize their old
enemy in its novel role of benevo-
lence.
This acute shortage of labor comes
at a time when there is a corre-
spondingly acute demand for goods.
The gods could not have conspired
to create a situation more favorable
for labor. Goods are scarce because
of the void created during five years
of war; it is time of rising prices;
the incentive to do business is
strong; capital and business are
eager to keep going, and are willing
to make concessions which in nor
NAL times they would not and could
not make. Labor is in the saddle.
1 can imagine a historian of so
year from now looking back and sur
veying from that future point OF
view all that happened in America
during the five years following the
Great War and ascribing 1T all to
this one cause, to the shortage OIL
labor due to the unprecedented
quantity of man power killed OIL
in the fighting. That would be a
rough and incomplete analysis, hut
I can imagine a future historian,
under the necessity of brevity, put
ting it that way. There are some
additional causes for the social phe-
nomena that beset our ears at every
turn. and leap at us from every
newspaper headline; but the disap-
pearance of IA million men from the
worlds available labor supply is the
principal one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
ARMY FRENCH

L learned to speak French like a
While wearing the "kack" over
there.
it's rather elative
To think I'm that clever, 1 swear.
Tout de suite l learned beaucoup
expressions
Which pop out in speech, just like
that,
And now I'm back home I just can't
overcome
The habit of calling a hat
A chapeau, though l strive for
repressions
| learned TO speak French like a
It's not that l wish to SHOW off. :"
ForSetful of facts legislative,
| absently murmur: I'm Soft"
When a feeling of thirst settles Ger
me
(Which happens tres souvent just
now
And 1 ask "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" in
quite thoughtless way,
Unintentional wholly, / vow
(Ah, oui. showing off" simply bores
mel.
learned to speak French like a
native
While off in that war-stricken land
So original. l, and creative
The French, though, could not
understand.
Here at home ] find folks far more
clever.
They comprise my French at a
glance:
For. while life was so trenchlike. ]
learned to speak French like
A native-of Kansas. not France;
Like a true son of Yankland
forever.
Lee Shippey,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
Must Melt Bell in TODer
TFrom ST. Louis Post-Dispatchl

[From st. Louis Post-Dispatchl
The 2-ton bell which hangs in
the tower of the city hall has made
the tower unsafe, but the bell is so
large it would be dangerous to try
to take it down, so it is to be melted
right where it is with acetylene
blow torches. such as are commonly
seen in use by workmen repairing
car tracks.
Building Commissioner McKelvey
pronounced the tower unsafe as
long as the bell remains, because
the steel supports have become cor
roded. Moreover, he said, an at
tempt to lower the bell would be
very dangerous. therefore the de-
cision to take it down a bucketful
at time.
The only time in recent years that
the bell has been rung was the day
of the armistice celebration. 1t was
rung when the building was con-
structed in 1904. The bell cost
about $4,000. The expense of re-
moving it will be about $1,000. II
is six feet high and four feet in di-
ameter at the base.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John ]. Patterson, Jr., district
attorney of Juniata county, was at
the Capitol on a business trip.
Charles A. Jones, who appeared
in court in the Wasson case yester-
day, is a native of Newport, Perry
county.
General E. C. Shannon was the
chief marshal of Lancaster county's
welcome home.
-Ex-Representative Fred E.
Geiser, of Easton, was among visi-
tors to the Capitol. He was on
public service business.
Charles K. Robinson, Pittsburgh
lawyer here this week, represents
the city in traction litigation be-
fore the Public Service Commission.
DIR. E. B. Gleason, Philadelphia
councilman, will present ordinances
to punish people who .et their auto
mobile smoke.
j. E. Andrews, of Altoona, VIII
marshal the big Odd Fellows parad
in Williamsport.
The Rev. DR.. Maitland Alexs---
der. prominent Pittsburgh clerG:.' :
man. has resumed his duties after
a year in France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
BATHING BEACHES

n N ANOTHER page of the Tele-
graph this evening is printed
picture suggestion of the sort
of bathing beach and pool which is
possible for Harrisburg under the
proposed loan which will be voted
on at the November election. Quite
properly City Council has invited
Warren H. Manning, the famous
landscape expert, to come to Har-
risburg and make a study of the
problem with a view to reccmmenda-
tions that will guide Council should
the loan prevail.
For many years the matter of
bathing facilities in the Susquehanna
River has been discussed from every
angle and the increasing demand
from every quarter of the city for
suitable bath houses and bathing
beaches led Mayor Keister to intro
duce the ordinance providing for
the loan of $4,000 for this purpose.
All the members of the Council are
back of the proposition and back of
them are some thousands of men,
women and children who want to
make use of the Susquehanna Basin
and the islands which nature has
generously given the city.
If the proposed loan could be sub
mitted to the voters in midsummer,
when we suffer most from the heat
and when thousands turn to the river
for relief, it would be adopted by an
Overwhelming vote. 1t is expected,
Notwithstanding, that the popularity
of the loan will be demonstrated at
the November election.
All the civic bodies, led by the
Rotary Club, are supporting the
measure and the Greater Harrisburg
Navy, pledged to the development of
the Susquehanra Basin for the bene-
,tft of the people, is putting a lot
of ginger into the campaign, and
practically no opposition has been
developed nor is any expected.
City Commissioner Gross is con-
vinced that the first and most i'm
portant step is to make use of the
natural river advantages through
the creation of proper beaches and
pools and suitable bath houses. He
has already obtained much data and
when Mr.. Manning comes to the city
for his investigation next week, some
definite program will be announced
for the information of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
Keep James Watts Gdrret
IFrom the Glasgow Herald

lFIOHl lAe bidSSoW I1oIdlu1
The problem of how to remove
and preserve intact the garret in
which James Watt, the engineering
genius (who made the steam engine
practical proposition), pursued
his mechanical studies, is now puz-
zling the James Watt Centenary
Committee, which arranged elab-
crate centenary celebrations at Bir-
mingham last month.
1t is proposed, if possible, to take
this garret from its position at the
top of Heathfield Hall, the old
manor house at Handworth, where
Watt spent his last years, and to re-
erect it intact in the central me-
mortal buildings to be provided in
the heart of Birmingham.
The difficulties of removal, how
ever, are very great, and the house
of which it is part is at present in
occupation. The garret is still in
exactly the same condition as when
Watt worked in it.
The piece of iron Watt was last
engaged in turning lies on the lathe.
The ashes of his last fire, where
Watt used to do his own cooking
because of his wife's objection to
seeing her husband looking like a
blacksmith, are in the grate the
last lump of coal Is in the scuttle,
the Dutch oven is in it's place over
the stove and the frying pan in
which he cooked his meals is hang
ing on its accustomed nail.
A dish on a shelf contains a with
cred bunch of grapes. On the floor
in a corner is a trunk containing
Gregory's school books. Gregory
was the youngest son of James
Watt, who, to his fathers infinite
grief. died young and at the COM
mencement of most promising ca
reer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08

MARK Sullivan in Golfers Weekly.1 ]
" HE one element which alone
accounts for more han any
other in the chaos of the pres
ent relations between labor and
capital is the loss from the labor
supply of the world of the seven
million able-bodied laborers who
have been killed in the war, the
other seven million who have been
so seriously crippled that they are
no longer available as laborers, and
finally the very considerable number
of millions more who are still in the
various armies of the world.
The millions who are in the arm
les are in process of dem mobiliZation;
eventually they will come back into
industry and to that extent enlarge
the worlds supply of available labor.
But the labor supply Of the world
has been permanently reduced by no
less than IA million men, the killed
and seriously wounded of the war.
And these II million were picked
men. They came from the very
heart of the worlds labor supply,
the able-bodied men of military age.
Americas total losses in the war,
both of dead and also of those so
seriously wounded as to be a total
loss for purposes of labor, did not
amount in all to a hundred thou
sand. But while the IA million did
not to any appreciable degree come
out of America, their loss affected
the American labor situation quite
as seriously as if the men themselves
had come from America.
We have direct labor shortage of
our own, a shortage of about five
million. Prior to the war we were
accustomed to getting just about a
million immigrants year from
Europe. This immigration from
Europe was a kind of steadily flow
ing spring from which we added
about a million each year to our
labor supply. More or less uncon-
sciously business men counted on it.
Our whole industrial fabric was built
up on the assumption that the mil
lion would come each year.
Now for five years that spring has
been dry. Since the beginning of
the war we have had only a negli-
gible fraction of our normal immi-
grafton from Europe. We have in
America at this moment an accum-
ulated deficit of about five million
in our labor supply. And a short
age in the supply of labor has re-
suited precisely like a shortage in
the supply of anything else-it sends
prices up. In the language of bust
ness men, the present time is, as
respects labor, a sellers market"
BY a sellers market is meant a
situation in which the supply is linn
tied, and in which the demand is
large and excited. A sellers mar
ket' in labor is much more COM
plex and more worrying to the buyer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
By MAJOR FRANK @. NIAH1N
or the Army Recruiting Station

The number of men serving in the
armed forces of the nation during
the war was 100000, of whom A.
100000 served in the Army.
In the War with Germany the
United States raised twice as many
men as did the Northern States in
the Civil War, but only half as many
in proportion to the population.
The British sent more men to
France in their first year of war
than we did in our first year, but
it took England three years to reach
a strength of 100000 men in
France, and the United States ac-
complished it in one-half of that
time.
OF every 100 men who served, 10
were National Guardsmen, 13 were
Regulars, and n were in the Ma
tional Army Cor would have been if
the services had not been conson-
dated).
OF the 54,000,00O males in the
population, 26,00O,000 were regis
tered in the draft or were already
in service.
In the physical examinations the
States of the Middle West made the
best showing. Country boys did
better than city boys; white better
than colored; and native-born better
than foreign-born.
In this war twice as many men
were recruited as in the Civil War
and at one-twentieth of the recruit
ing cost.
There were 100000 Army officers.
OF every six officers, one had pre-
vious military training with troops,
three were graduates of officers
training camps, and two came direct
Iy from civil life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
A Double Strain

Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraphl
1t was a stage rehearsal. The
principal lady came upon the stage
in walking. costume and started to
sing her great song.
my dear!" cried the manager,
you are surely not going to sing
with your veil on?"
"Of course. 1 am" she replied.
"I want to hurry off as soon as 1
finish. have to meet a friend"
But singing with a veil on!" ex-
postulated the manager. well,
WE'LL" he added. in resigned tone.
II can't help it If you want to st rain
your voice!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08

and c. F. Wright, former State
Treasurer. The fight centers on the
OFFICES of register and recorder, dis
trict attorney and county treasurer.
TO further complicate matters, DR..
Edward Il. Gardner, a few weeks
ago purchased the independent
Republican" the county organ of
the Republican party since the
foundation of the party in 1854. 1t
has always in the past stood loyalty
by the party ticket DR.. Gardner
has announced that it will support
men on the Democratic ticket.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle -Tele-
Slaph says this, in which everyone
concurs: There are no such things
as party lines when illness attacks
the President of the United States.
All the people are concerned, and
all earnestly hope for his speedy re-
covery."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
Solution No. 6,2OO,472
fFrom Life1

The only trouble with democracy
is that it has developed into govern
ment of the people, at the people,
over the people. under the people.
around the people, against the peo-
pie, by the people. between the peo-
Pile. into the people. with the people,
without the people, for the people,
beyond the people, after the people,
before the people. in front of the
People, behind the people. outside
the people. inside the people. Why
not get back to the original Lin
colnian propositions?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
THE RED CROSS

r-ARRISBURG is n very proper
r. place for a Red Cross con-
"a ference. Harrisburg chapter
has a reputation for doing things.
1t originated the plan of commun-
ity relief which now promises to be-
come part of Red Cross work
throughout the nation. The service
extended to the sick and suffering
peoples of Europe has been brought
home to the folks of our own city
and countryside.
With the Red Cross charity did
not begin at home. 1t first went to
Europe, and then came back after
the armistice was signed TO find
place in the hearts of the good
women of the local chapter who have
begun to do for the sick and Grip
pied of our own community what
the ministering angels of the organ
ization did in France and Belgium
during the war.
We in Harrisburg are proud of
the Red Cross and particularly of our
local chapter. Most of the war
agencies. were content to rest on their
oars when hostilities ceased. They
had done a good work, they were
weary of effort and ready enough
TO quit Not so the Red Gross!
When war work began to wane it
turned its attention to the needs of
the people in times of peace. and
already scores of families in this
vicinity have felt the stimulus and
encouragement of its loving and
helpful hand.
1t is we'll for the Red Cross
workers of the State to come to Har-
risburg. Our women can give them
many useful lessons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
The Trdu Landing
[From the New York Tribunel


The circumstances of the Trau
landing have created acute interest
in Washington. Secretary Daniels
apparently was not advised of the
move, made by our naval forces un,
der orders of some sort from the
Peace Council or one of it's agencies.
American marines seem to have
elected an irregular Italian force
from this Dalmation village. No
bloodshed occurred and only formal
hostilities were engaged in against
nationals of an allied country. But
in principle the Trau landing would
differ in no respect from an attempt
by the armed forces of France.
Great Britain and the United States
to eject D'Annunzios forces from
Fiume
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
Kills Engine, Gides 35 Miles
[From the Detroit Newsl

Illc DSIiOiI @NS"S'
What is believed to be a worlds
record for gliding with a dead mo-
tor was accomplished at Ithaca, n.
Y, by Pilot r. C. Marshall, flying
Thomas-Morse 2-seated biplane.
Marshall flew to the head of Cayuga
Lake, a distance of thirty-five miles,
and having attained a height of
1880 feet switched off his motor
and glided to Ithaca, at which point
he still had 5000 feet altitude. If
his glide had been continued it is
estimated that an additional fifteen
miles could have been covered, MAX
ing a total of fifty miles without the
use of his motor. The longest glide
record up to this time was of
Captain Raynham, when he glded
from Brooklands (England) to
Hendon, a distance of twenty-five
miles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
The Pillars of the Earth

The Lord maketh poor, and maxi
eth rich; he bringeth low. and lift
eth up. He raiseth up the poor from
the dust, and lifteth up the beggur
from the dunghill, to set them
among princes, and to make them
inherit the throne of glory; for the
pillars of the earth are the Lord A"
and he hath set the world upon
them.-I Samuel ii. z and 8.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-08
WATCHING NEW YORK

-HE whole country is watching
the course of the daylight
- saving" ordinance in New
York. If New York aldermen pass
this measure, the cities of the whole
country can drop into line without
serious inconvenience. and they will
do so. Harrisburg is prepared,
whether New York acts fayorably