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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
MRS. SUSAN BANKS.

Funeral services for Mrs. Susan
BLnks, vie 81 james Banks, are be
ing held az the First Baptist Church
Sixth and G streets southwest, this
afternoonE AIRS. Banks died at her
residehcsefz z street southwest, on
Thursday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
MIS-. ELlzAEEIH RabNae

Funeral services for Mrs. EiiEsbeth
KFoon. eighty years ED, who diedlFri-
day afternoon. win be held from the
residsnce of her daughter Elisabeth
Dcdge. ass Fifth street northeast, to-
morrow Afternoon at 20 O'Clock. In
permanent viii be at Oak Hill cemetery.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
BIRTHS

warts. Z asa YlzNzie y. sRobsy, boy.
&C. =. and Mande q. Graham.
George 3. and Naomi K. Gordon
jerome ard johanna Collins
F4stehef s. and Helen q. Cauhman.
clinton D. and 1ariH d. Alexander.
Carlton p. and Jessie L. Allen.
. DAUGHTERS.
ElfonsS and Elisa D'Anico.
Thornas, 3. and Leila r. Callahan
Mash 2. and Feleska A Cook.
Alien and Florence Colbert.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
DEATHS

Katie y InRle, So 62l Randolph q.
EHaFetta X EruSzt, IS eaa x st. ne
Arthur r Getty.r4 az Itth. 81.
John orfaDog, Is. Tuberculosis Hos.
George ". Kline %. 113S 18th 81.
Hli1abeth .KrOon. 7e. HN25 Sth st. ne.
Eleanor Perry, Il, Tuberculosis Hos.
Iehn. L. Jefferson, SIS. 322S Prospect ave.
Nathaniel II. Jsynes 3,s7sS0 j. 9Th 81
Mary wood, 81. Goth and b SITS. ne.
Charles Charles. So. sf07 sherman ave.
0eerge johnson, IS, Washington Asylum
Hes
Joseph H DonAhOO. 30. 4seI Kane pL
DeanWood, ne.
chainerS r Reeves, mos, 1899 18th st.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
Winter Pushes

At a saving Of nearly so per
cent. Coat. coatee and stole
lengths will be reserved until
November / by paying a rea-
sonable deposit.
Salts Black Peco 50-inch
plush, $S.9S.
Salts Black Behring Seal
plush, SS.0Ss
Salts Black Hudson Seal
plush, $500.
Salts Nutria 5o-inch plush.
$3.50.
Beautiful Kerami Mole, $500
Third Floor
LanSburgh & Bro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10

72xs4 Crochet Spread, in two
pretty patterns, good weight
and easily Numbered. e0 10
AT. WGesS
Double.size Sealloped Mar
settles Spread, with cut-out
corners, e. ~
1O-4 Part-wooI White or Gray
Blankets, the proper size for
single. three-quarter &c IN
or twin beds. Pair. ~VsOV
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
5o-Inch All Wool
-.
BrOadclOth
Yord$2.59

At least % per cent less
than the price you'll have to
pay later. These were bought
many months ago before the
sharp rise. Full so inches
wide.
54-in. $3.50 Black
Velour at, Yard, $2.98
All wool first quality rich
raven black. Only a limited
quantity. Anticipate your
fall needs and make a sub
stantial saving.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
Pleasant
Work For
EmbroidererS

54.inch lunch con
cloths in new designs
stamped on heavy quail
ity linene. At $1.75.
27-inch centers STAN
ed for French embroid-
cry on excellent quail
ity pure linen. At
CSC.
Large size laundry
bags, made of art Gre
tonne. in a variety of
colorings from which
to select. Values to
$1.5O at CSC.
Rolls for centers and
luncheon cloths, made
of attractive cretonne,
45 and 81 inches long.
Values up to S1.50 at
CSC.
Third Floor
LdHsbargh & Bro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-10
Becoming Panne
Velvet Dress Hats
$40 and So

A-bssutfuI array of chic hats made for early au-
tumn wear.
"a Included in this showing are large dress hats of
finest quality Panne velvet with cqlored undertakings
that give The color and style so much desired .
Smartfy trimmed with expensive ostrich bands,
tips and fanceS, burnt peacock French flowers and
Most prominent ststes are mushrooms, straight
Sailors high roll backs aud smart liTbans.
*seooaa, Floor Lafssbar gil Bro.
% - 4@zF&s $3.50 80
.lzlLNS
alJr1l ISSs kAMEE3 N-
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At 500 Piece

$500, English Long
cloth, AZ inches wide; Il
yards to the piece.
First Floor
LaHsburgh & Bro.
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fifth Floor Ldf1Sburgh & BIZ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29

$4,000. The man who drinks short
ems his working life increases his liv-
ing expenses, lowers hs earning pow
ers and so becomes of no economic
value whatever to the community"
And as the drunkard's children, in
heriting n weakened vitality, which
made them ready victims to such
diseases as epilepsy, scrofula and in
sanity, they perpetuated the burden,
he argued. Even more forcible was
his showing that the immense capi-
tai and labor force employed in the
distilling and brewing industry was
used to an end which not only was
of no real benefit to the world, but
terrible detriment. You might
as well insist that, because fire
which destroys a business block
makes business for the lumber deal
er, the brick manufacturer, the
plumber, the carpenter, the plaster
er and the painter, it would be a
fine thing to burn down the whole
town." he said.
Just a plain, straightforward pre-
sentation of ugly facts, backed up
by figures, was that old lecture, but
it started a new line of attack on
booze
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
ONLY ONE LANGUAGE

"HE Legislature should pass
without delay the four bills
presented in the House Mon
day night by Mr.. Bolard, of Craw-
ford, providing for the repeal of the
law requiring the publication of GER
tain state and legal advertising in
the foreign language press. The
bills are aimed primarily at Ger
man newspapers, but they will hit
all newspapers printed in languages
other than English. Mr.. Bolard's
intention is to withdraw public
patronage from journals that do not
use the common language of the
country and in this he will have the
support of all good Americans. Why
should the State support newspapers,
for example. whose publishers were
arrested on charges of treason dur
ing the war. This is an English
preaching country and to encourage
the use of other language is but to
create confusion and give oppor-
tunity for the spread of foreign pro-
paganda.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
STANDARD RAILROADS

IT should not have required the
testimony of an expert to have
Il convinced the railroad admins
tration of the folly of attempting the
Standardization of railroad rolling
stock the country over. 1t ought to
have been evident to even the most
inexperienced that equipment, par
ticuiarly locomotives. suitable for
one part of the country would be en-
tirely unfit for similar service in diff
ferent fuel attitudes, on different
grades. using different fuel and oper-
ating under different circumstances
in other localities.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which
for many years has been acknowl-
edged to be the standard railroad of
the world, uses many types of loco
motives in its various departments,
and on its several divisions. For ex-
ample. the big engines that carry
the excursionists at ninety miles an
hour across the fiat, low country of
New Jersey would be entirely un-
suitable for use on the mountain
grades OF the AIleghenys. ana the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
HIS DREAMS

> I wonder when the Kaiser rests
Upon his carven bed,
With quilts of silk and eiderdown
About him softly spread,
And night and silence round him
weave,
A curtain shutting out
The troubles of a throneless King,
Just what he dreams about.
Does Shiny seaweed bind his brow,
AS in the gloomy deep
1t twines the grewsome relics where
The U-boat victims sleep?
And in a super-nightmare does
He writhe and sweat to hear
A murdered baby's feeble moan,
A woman's cry of fear?
For sleep and death twin brothers
are,
And sleep to him reveals
A movie" of his punishment
In twenty-seven reels,
When he will find no rest or peace
Though grasses DER him sprout;
1 would not like to see the things
The Kaiser dreams about!
-Minna Irving, in New York
Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
THE Wall OF THE LOST
[From the New York Sun.l

tFrom the New York Sun
These ringing words are from a
speech delivered by the attorney for
a brewers association:
The Anti-Saloon League may
rant and kick up the dust, but they
cannot make the people deaf or
blind to the obvious and unansWer-
able arguments against ratification
of the national prohibition amend
ment." d.
The arguments that are "obvious
and unanswerable" appear to have
little weight with the State Legisla-
lures. Yesterday six states, Alabama,
Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, North
Carolina and Arkansas, ratified the
bone dry amendment to the Con-
stitution, bringing the total number
of State Legislatures that have
thrust the spear into the Demon
thirty. Six more states in line will
make the whole country dry.
no ranting and kicking up of dust
has been responsible for all his. The
evil effect of the corner ginmill on
the peace and prosperity of the
American home has been the cause
of the sweep of sentiment against
liquor. No matter how innocent the
drinks of small alcoholic content
may be, the Legislatures are not
stopping to protest that the tail
must not go with the hide. The
brewers aided the distillers by back
ing the saloons where whisky and
gin, as wei las beer. were sold. II
the brewers had fought the distillers
as hard as they fought the anti-sa-
loon people there might not now be
prohibition amendment to be vot-
ed on.
But that opportunity is past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
RETURNING TO NORMAL
IFrom the Phila. Inquirerl

From the Fnlla. lnqulFeTI
Governor Coolidge, OF Massachu-
setts. is one of those who believe
that the way to get back to normal
business conditions is to go right
back and stop talking about it. He
deplores the tendency to mark
time," while admitting that the
question of the supply of raw ma
terial is a serious one for the manu-
facturer. Everybody" he says, lis
waiting for somebody else to act
first. They are all ready to follow
the leader" But the Bay State
Governor believes the sooner we
start the easier and better it will be
for all concerned. Many business
men are waiting either for decline
in prices or a guarantee that present
prices are to be maintained. Either
one would help to make things hum.
why wait longer?" asks the Cover
nor. If the plunge is made now, he
feels that the decline will be grad
ual and will not seriously affect any
body.
But whatever may be thought of
private enterprise there is no reason
why public officials who have the
power should not speed Hp construc-
admitted that the railroads are in
need of rolling stock and that inn
provements must be started if they
are going to give the public the sort
of service to which it is entitled.
Yet we hear of the abandonment of
many projects that had already been
started. Pennsylvania Railroad i'm
provements in this district, involving
the expenditure of many millions.
have either been cast aside or halt
ed by direction of the Railroad Ad-
ministrator. The effect is discour-
aging. If this necessary work-and
1t is admittedly necessary-should
go ahead, 1t would mean employ
ment, not only on the railroad, but
in factories and workshops. In q
word, the Federal government has
the opportunity of taking the lead
in the return to normal conditions.
If the States would go ahead with
construction work wherever possi-
BILE, it would contribute to the gen.
eral welfare. 1t is gratifying to note
that some of them are going ahead
regardless of the Federal govern
ment and private enterprises. Mas
sachusetts is one of them. Penn
sylvania is another. Governor Sproul
in his inaugural address outlined
some of the possibilities. One of
these related to road building. Cities.
towns and villages have the power
and the means to begin construc-
ton work. Most of them have here
tofore been tied down by war re-
strictions. These restrictions, for
the most part, have been removed.
Let public work start and private
enterprises will enthusiastically fol-
low.
We must not mark time indefi-
nitely. An army of the unemployed
would mean hardship. AS was once
said of specie payments, the way
to resume Is to resume"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
TRACKWORKERS

" "RACKwORKERS of the Penn
syIvania railroad threaten to
sstrike unless certain demands
are met by the railroad administra-
ton. With respect to the merits of
these demands the Telegraph knows
nothing. But this much may be
said for the track men-they are the
hardest worked and poorest paid
employees in the service of the rail-
roads. Tt has always been so. They
have been classed as unskilled labor
and paid accordingly. But in reality
a competent track hand must
possess an unusual degree of train
ing with pick, sledge and bar. A
brakeman may be trained in third
the time it requires to produce a
competent trackworker. Yet the
brakeman always has commanded
much higher wages. At last, how
ever, the track hand apparently has
set out to get his"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
RUSSIAN PROTESTS
[From the Philadelphia Press.

lFrom the Philadelphia Press.
For whom do they speak. these
Russian leaders who object to the
Peace Conferences proposal that
the Bolsheviki, along with all other
Russian factions. should attend the
meeting at Princes Island. A for
mer Russian premier and a former
foreign minister make these objec-
lions, but it is not clear that they
represent a considerable body of
russians or reflect a considerable
faction of Russian opinion.
1t shoulj be clear to every Rus
sian leader from President Wilson, S
frank statement of principles on
Thursday that alien influence or
power will be employed to the ad-
vantage of no separate faction in
that unfortunate land. The Rus
slams themselves must choose their
government. The Associated Pow
ers are concerned only with giving
the Russian people this opportunity
of free choice. Once the choice is
fairly made support and encourage
ment and material aid to the new
government will be forthcoming.
Hence any Russian leader who
blocks that proposed meeting or
who refuses to participate in it puts
himself out of court. The recent
statement of the French foreign
minister may have given certain
Russian actions false hopes that
they would be forcibly elevated to
power. But France now stands
with America and England on the
principle that every Russian party
must appeal to the suffrages Of the
Russian people and not to the favor
of alien governments.
The disapproval of Sazonoff and
Lvoff will not therefore constitute a
setback to the Allied plan of con-
Citation. If these gentlemen are
well advised they will reconsider
their decision not to participate.
The meeting will go on with them
or without them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT
WASHINGTON'S POSITION
By BRIGGS

Europe has a set of primary in
terests, which to us have none, or a
very remote relation. Hence she
must be engaged in frequent con-
troversies. the causes of which are
essentially foreign to our concerns.
Hence, therefore, it must be unwise
in us to implicate ourselves by ar
tificial ties, in the ordinary vicissl-
tudes of her politics, or the ordl-
nary combinations and collisions OF
her friendships or enmities.
"Our detached and distinct sit
uation invites and enables us to
pursue q different course. If we re-
main one people, under an efficient
government, the period is not far
distant when we may defy material
injury from external annoyance;
when W. may take such an attitude
as will cause the neutrality we may
at any time resolve upon to be
scrupiously respected; when bellig-
erent nations, under the impossible
ity of making acquisitions upon us,
will not lightly hazard the giving
us provocation; when we may
choose peace or war, as our interest,
guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of
such peculiar situation? Why
quit our own to stand upon foreign
ground? Why, by Interviewing our
destiny with that of any part of
Europe, entangle our peace and
prosperity in the tolls of European
ambition, rival ship, interest, hu-
NOR or caprice?"
The above is quoted from Presi-
dent Washington's farewell address
of September II, 1895, refusing a
second re- election. Was he selfish,
or was he an AMERICAN states
man? AMERICAN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
MORE SURRENDER

PROMINENT D e m ocra ii C
II newspaper publishes long
- - news dispatch from Buenos
Aires saying that the United States
is losing trade in South America.
Among other things. the dispatch
says that at least a score of ships
loading for Souh America are idling
in United States harbors and that
month after month has passed and
there have been no ships, nothing
except words"
America has taken a back seat and
competitors are grabbing all the
trade.
Well. what else could you expect
under an administration that has
fallen down in almost every instance
where American interests are at
stake? But why didn't the Demo-
cratic press acknowledge the facts
before the recept elections?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 90, 1918
SOLDIER INSURANCE

-HE life insurance underwriters
of Harrisburg are to be COM
mended for their prompt action
in defense of soldiers insurance.
This protection is the cheapest In
the world and the discharged soldier
who permits it to lapse will live to
see the day he will regret his failure
to hold on to the best bargain In
life insurance ever offered.
1t is small trick for any insur-
ance agent to get men to part with
these policies in exchange for others.
The Harrisburg underwriters may
miss a few dollars by their liberal
action, but they will make it up,
and more, by the confidence young
men whose government policies they
have saved will place in them. In
the long run they will be greatly
the gamers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
NO PEACE FOR HANK

TT ENRY FoRD's contest of the
n election OF rruman H. New
berry to the Senate shows
that Henry does not yet appreciate
the fact that the people of Michigan
prefer first-class fighting man to
a pacifist. Newberry as commander
of fighting ship was much prefer
able to the captain of the ship that
sailed for Europe in 1914 to "get
the boys out Of the trenches by
Christmas" Tit5fs4-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29

light passenger locomotive which
satisfactorily hauls the Bingleviiie
accommodation would be entirely
out of place attempting to pull one
of the suburban expresses out OF
Philadelphia or New York.
What we need in railroad admin
istration is a little more common
sense and not so much theoretical
Standardization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
A SHAKEUP NEEDED

A SHAKEUP NEEDED
TUsT what is. back of the tempest
y in a teapot that is at present
stirring the police department is
not apparent. Certainly 1t does APP
pear as though the acceptance of
thirty cents reward nearly a year
ago by a patrolman for a service
rendered would appear to be small
ground for dismissal in the light of
other offenses of both omission and
commission that even a surface in
vestigation of the department would
bring to light. Not that policemen
ought to be permitted to accept
money, but that. where such petty
graft is punished more serious mis-
demeanors ought not to be over
looked.
The recent vice raid is an exam
pie. It is a suspicious circumstance.
to say the least. that the Federal
agents were able to fill a whole
courtroom with offenders on .one
evening in a city where the local
police had failed to find even one
place of i'll repute. And in support
of the suspicion that all of the police
and city detectives could not have
been ignorant of these deplorable
conditions, it is recalled that the
police of the city declined to make
the arrests when the information
was offered to them by Federal in
vestigators.
And then the question arises if
some of the officers were aware OF
conditions and did not act, and the
heads of the department refused to
clean I'D after the Government had
offered its assistance, what is back
of their unwillingness to do their
duty? Were they simply criminally
Negligent. or had they monetary
interest in the protection Of the
speakeasies and brothels?
No reflection has been cast upon
Mayor Keister's honesty or fairness
since he took office. 1t has been
generally believed that he has been
handling his ofice to the best OF his
ability. But he has reached the
Mace where he must go deeply into
the affairs of the police department
or be content to accept whatever
criticism the public has to offer for
his laxity.
There are good men in the depart
ment; policemen Of whom any city
might be proud. But there are Of
f,cers protected by the civil service
law who ought to be dismissed. A
probe of the whole department is in
order. Charges that police take
bribes, that they overlook crime and
that they drink while on duty or
come to work with liquor on their
breath are not to be passed over
lightly, even when made by a dis
missed patrolman. Mayor Keister,
If he expects to retain the confidence
of the public, should shake up the
whole department, place the stamp
of approval upon those who have
done their duty and get rid of the
incompetents and worse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. II. D. Heller, the quaranti
physician at Philadelphia and
former senator, was here yesterd
for a time.
Ex-Representative William Wal
of Philadelphia. spent a day he
-Adjutant General Frank
Beary, who is in Washington
militia affairs, is working on sol
military training bills.
Senator William p. Crow,
Uniontown, entered the Senate 3
a dozen years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
Lincoln'S Spirit Hardened

Gene Debs throws out the hint
that he is another Lincoln. But it
does not matter. The great liberator
is probably so accustomed TO such
things by this time that he has quit
turning over in his grave.-From the
Toledo Blade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
FilipinoS ShouD Capacity

The FiIipinos arise to remark that
they too, would like full freedom,
but are willing to wait our conven-
ience. That spirit alone, shows a
capacity for self-determination that
many others might emulate.-From
the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
WaShingtOn'S MYSTERIES

How are the successors to Nc
Adoo and Gregory going to live in
washington on those insufficient
saIarie From the Nashville Ten
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
LABOR NOTES

American shipyards built 1882
vessels of 2.721,2S1 gross tons during
1918.
The engineers trades, which In
clude mschinists in England has de-
clared for 46-hour week.
Lancashire (Eng) cotton workers
have been granted wage increase
amounting to practically so per
cent.
over $4,000 people are employed
in the salmon canning industry in
the State of Washington.
The salaries of women school
teachers IN Pennsylvania increased
2s per cent. during the last year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
r. r. Situation Summarized

AS we view the situation, nobody
wants the railroads, but nobody
wants anybody else to have them
Chicago News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's course
Capitol Park improvements is bel
watched with interest by ms
cities?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29
HISTORIC HARRIsBURc

IN early days church services uI
to be held under trees in sunni
time
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-29

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