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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
A Strike of People

Edwin c. Atkinson, of Philadel-
phia, writing in the New forh
Times, says:
"It would seem to me that at this
time when capital and labor are
having such a conflict, and When
labor has become so autocratic, the
great mass of the people, who are
really the greatest sufferers from
the conflict, should form union
similar to the labor unions IN order
to protect themselves. If the COM
mon people were properly organ
ized, 1t seems to me they could exert
an immense influence and prevent
to a great extent the troubles
brought about by the labor strikes.
"It has been stated that the great
strike at Winnipeg last summer was
broken by a counterstrike of the
common people. They got tired OF
the sufferings caused them by the
st rike and got together. They took
n census and found that out of each
fifteen persons of the population
only one was a striker, so that the
other fourteen were suffering for the
strike of one man. So they organ
lied, and then counterstruck. They
told the strikers that IL they or their
families got sick, the doctors would
not attend them and the druggists
would not sell them drugs; the law
yers said they would not take their
cases; the butcher would not sell
them meat. and the grocer would
not sell them groceries. And the
strike was broken almost immedi-
ately. The idea was taken up in
other cities in Western Canada, with
the same quick results. Why can
not we do the same here"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
The Highest Testimony
By BRIGGS
[From Kansas City Tfmesl

General Pershing's strong recon-
mendation of universal training as
a foundation for a permanent mill
tary policy for the United States is
based on his patriotism, knowledge
and professional experience.
When he told the joint Senate and
House Military Committee that if
America had not been unprepared
Germany would not have Ventured
upon course of aggression toward
us, he revealed the whole secret of
Americas lack of weight in the in
ternational scales throughout the
period preceding the declaration of
war in April, 1917. Subsequent
events no doubt have taught Ger
many her mistake, but there never
must be a chance for any similarly
inclined power to make. q mistake
like it. Nor must America run 4
like risk again. AS General Per-
shing said, the united determination
| of the American people, rather than
any forethought of the Government
carried our arms to success. But ii
was at tremendous cost and after a
delay that under less favorable cir
cumStanceS might have been fatal.
Only a trained citizenship immedi-
ately available for emergency service
can provide a national defense in the
| future, at the moment when it may
| be needed. Such a reserve is the
most effective warning the country
can give to foreign aggression. On
the other hand, the greatest en-
couragement an aggressive power
could receive would be the knowl.
edge that America would require
two years to put it's strength into
a battle line.
The civic advantages of training
as dwelt on by General Pershing
are equally beyond question. The
development of physical Vigor is {
| gain hardly to be measured, bu
when we remember the uncertaint.
of the country's mental attitude a
the coming of the war we can bet
ter understand the immense gair
that will come with a truly nationa
mind and a national feeling such al
are bound to be the results of thi!
school of patriotism and prepared
ness. The committees that are fran
ing the new army legislation cal
have no better guide than the com
mander- -in-chief of the American
Expeditionary Force. Others ma.
have theories. He saw militar!
training of mind and body work ou
| in practice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
Industrial Villages Needed
[From Architectural


What is to become of those
numerous settlements. the Indus
trial Villages" and Garden Cities"
constructed during the war by the
United States Shipping Board,
Emergency Fleet Corporation, the
Bureau of Industrial Housing and
Transportation, and the Department
of Labor? They are better planned
communities than we ever dreamed
of having before the war. How are
we going to keep them so? Are
they to be permitted to revert to
the old haphazard standards of our
older cities and towns?
Are not the reasons advanced in
Congress for spending millions on
housing industrial workers just as
pertinent now as at the time of the
war? If more and better housing
was needed then to increase produc-
ton, to make labor more contented
and more efficient, and to stabilize
both industry and labor, thereby re-
ducing the labor turnover and
strikes, is it not now needed more
than ever to accomplish these same
purposes?
If the war was fought for the
rights of humanity, is not the an
alienable right to live in sanitary
home. where health and content
ment prevail, one of the greatest OF
these? Upon it must rest the foun'
dation of that social structure which
is to safeguard our democracy fol
posterity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
The Community Center
[From Kansas City Times1

The little town of Basehor in
Leavenworth County is planning for
community center house, accord
ing to a news item in The Star yes
terday. 1t is proposed to build a
community house including a high
school, an auditorium and an ex-
position building in one.
Basehor has started on the right
road to the community center idea.
The movement in that community
should be watched by every Kansas
neighborhood. A community house
should fill every need of the COM
munity, educational, religious, agri-
cultural and social. In addition to
the plan of having a school. audi
torium and exposition building in
one it still would be better If Base
hor could induce the different
churches of the community to enter
into the movement for a building
which would be adequate for all
church purposes as well. Every
community has one or two churches,
usually one or two more than is
actually necessary to meet the re-
quirements of the community. One
part of the community attends one
church, another part of the conf
munity travels a mile or two further
to attend another church. One
church may be blessing to COM
munity and two churches become a
burden.
The community center spirit will
inspire unity of community action.
1t will give organization and direc-
ton to a united community effort
in all things. A few years ago when
Dekalb county, ILL.,, built COM
munity high school by uniting two
! school districts, the farmers who
were leaders of the movement, were
roundly abused for their efforts to
destroy the neighborhood spirit"
, because they desired to unite in a
/ larger community circle. But after
! the high school was erected, ana
an auditorium provided for all
neighborhood meetings, a center for
all community gatherings, the De-
| kalb county neighborhood round
itself holding agricultural exhibits
community stock sales and conduct,
ing community theatricals ano
moving picture shows. 1t was
forced to add baseball grounds ano
tennis courts and football fields II
order to provide athletic sports fol
the young people of the community
| And the results showed first, ar
awakened community spirit thai
worked wonders in the way Of
neighborhood improvement, anc
second, that the young people o.
the neighborhood lost their keen
ness for visits to the neighborint
cities. They found amusement ant
entertainment at home. 1t was no
difficult to keep the young men ant
young women on the farms. NO
for several times the $4,000 whicf
1t cost the Dekalb county neighbor
hood to build it's community schoo
and community house would tn
neighborhood now part with 1t anC
go back to the old conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
+" HE transportation demands of
the United States are increas-


ing daily, outstrippinS the
transportation facilities. Nowhere
is this so evident as in Pennsylvania
and in the Atlantic Coast States,
from Maine to Florida. We are prac-
tically dependent on one system of
transportation, the railroad is only
one string to our transportation bow.
Recently the auto truck has been
largely used but it's tonnage is limit
ed, its operation cost is excessive,
very few comm modities can bear high
trucking charges. The consuming
public should not be compelled to
pay excessive freight charges, when
a cheap, reliable means can be sub
stituted. The railroads have reach
ed their limit of carrying and deliv-
ering capacity, without great expen-
diture for additional facilities. 1t
is absolutely necessary for the con-
tinuouS growth and prosperity of
this nation that its transportation ia
cilities be increased, and without de-
lay. Pennsylvania, supplying all the
anthracite coal and almost fifty per
cent. of the bituminous, requires a
one hundred per cent. increase in
the transportation of these products.
iron, clay, stone, cement, agricul-
tural and other products, the bulk
of which are disposed of in the At
lantic Coast States, particularly in
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey,
| New York, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts, Maine, all of
which are easily accessible by wa
ter-they contain a large population
and extensive industries located on
tide water, navigable rivers or barge
canals. The railroad freight rate to
these points on coal and bulky COM
modities is from $3.50 to $500 per
ton; by water the rate would be 90
cents to $1.00 per ton. How can
Pennsylvania secure additional wa
ter transportation and the eastern
states so great reduction on freight
J rates on the necessities of life? Ans
wer: BY making the Susquehanna
river navigable. The Susquehanna
river and its branches transverse the
/ central part of the State, from north
to south and from the central section
westward, almost the entire length
OF the. State. The Juniata on the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
The Red Gross Call
pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph

pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Again the precious privilege is
offered the people Of our Nation
the privilege of membership in the
American Red Cross, whose third
roll call will begin tomorrow and
end on November IL. The glorious
work of this organization during the
World War has endeared it to
households throughout the land,
for where there was suffering in
body, where there was anguish in
mind, there was the Red Cross with
it's ministering angels. 1t was a
Red Cross nurse who eased the pain
of the wounds of the soldier boy
far from home and mother; it was
Red Cross nurse who whispered
words of comfort in the ears of the
boy whose eyes would soon close
forever; it was Red Cross nurse
who penned the farewell message
to the loved ones back home. And
by day and by night, from the
stricken thousands, went up prayers
invoking the blessing of God on the
Red Cross.
The war is over, but not the work
of the Red Cross. which now enters
on a campaign of help for the suf-
! fering and needy in the United
, States. It's activities will be direct
ed into such channels as public
health and welfare, disaster, relief
| home nursing and service, neigh
borhood welfare, first aid instruc-
ton, Junior Red Cross, etc. Here
indeed, is program of helpfulness
that appeals to every true Ameri-
can, man, woman and child, and
everyone can join in this nation
wide labor of love by answering
"Here!" to the roll call of the Red
| Cross.
Next to a miniature flag of oui
country, the most sacred emblem
an American can wear is the sigr
| of the Red Cross! Wear 1t!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
The Dead Soldier to America

I was young, and, o God! how I
wanted to live!
The whole of my life lay ahead,
But my country was calling me
needed my strength.
I went. Seek me now with the,
dead!
I was young. All the world was
wine to be quaffed.
Fair love led me on with a smile;
But 1 died, and you, living, who
stand in my place,
Battle on!-make my dying worth
while!
My dreams I laid down on the Altar
of Right.
The blood of my youth stains the
clay. ..
Joyousness, music, hope, memory,
love,
In an instant I cast them away
Ay, cast them away with a song on
my lips,
Away with jest and a smile,
But the Goddess I fought for is lost
in the gloom,
Struggle on!-make my dying
worth while!
of my Land.
My Country I took as my bride,
My leader, my lover, the all of my
all.
I welded her, kissed her, and
died.
To you who go forward from where
I left off,
Though dark be the pathway each
mile,
The Torch have lit will yet flame
to the sky,
Garry on!-make my dying worth
while!
-EarIe IT Crooker
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Homes A. Flint. chairman of
the Allegheny Red Cross, is urging
display of more posters to arouse
people to their duty.
George M. Henderson, Phila-
delphia banker, has been made
foreman of the November grahd
jury. -, 4,,d;
cial campaign in Lackawanna at
tracted so much attention, has been
district attorney for some time ana
is we'll known here.
-Congressman j. HaHlPloh
Moore, new mayor of Philadelphia,
used to be a real estate reporter.
&C. G. Garner, prominent Hazel
ton mining man, is arranging
series of mining lectures for ms
district during the winter so that
people will better understand the
Judge H. w. Cummings. of
northumberland, has been assisting
the Luzerne judges this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
LOOKING AHEAD

N6 AYOR-ELECT GEORGE A.
M HOVERTER, who was chosen
yesterday by vote that
must have been very satisfactory to
him and his friends, will go into
office under the most auspicious of
circumstances and with opportunity
for service such as has been ac-
corded few mayors in the history
of the city. Backed by n friendly
city council, assuming h s duties just
as the city is about to take another
great step forward, on the eve of
vast municipal improvements and
with the confidence of the people in
his good intentions, he has but to
support to the limit of his ability
the planks of his platform to at
tain a splendid reputation for civic
service in the four years of his
term.
Unless all signs fail or unex-
pected business depression interGeres.
this city is in for period of growth
such as it has not enjoyed since the
years Immediately following the ap-
proval of the first public improve-
ment loans. The Capitol is about to
be enlarged, the grounds are to be
developed, a great bridge is to be
built at a cost of more than three
million dollars. bathing beaches and
bath houses are to be constructed,
100000 worth of sewers are to be
laid, nearly q million dollars worth
of paving will be put down. a great
housing program is now under con-
sideration and other vast improve
ments of a private or semi-public
character are in prospect Every
indication is for boom times
ahead. And that means opportunity
for civic betterment, which can he
accomplished easily when the city is
growing and money is plentiful.
The new mayor and city council
go into office familiar with the de-
tails of city government and will
need to waste no time in picking up
loose ends laid down y predecessors.
They will be able at once to begin
the great work the voters have en-
trusted to them. The people have
shown themselves ready to do their
full part. They have provided the
money. They have elected expert
enced men to office. They will eX-
pect much of the city government
in the next four years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
Young LoDe Came By

Young Love came by my little
house,
Beside the country road
And fingered long without the gate
TO lure me to his side;
Too busy I for love or vows
To leave my small abode
Some other day, another day,
Come later, Love-" cried.
Wide open stands my cottage door
And 1 beside the gate,
To watch the green and lovely pain
That winds-away from me;
For Love comes never any more,
Though long and long I walt
"I've found a maid, fairer maid.
A younger maid," cries he.
Jeanne Oldfield Pattar, in the
New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
BOOST HARRISBURG

"HE curriculum of every public
and private school in Harris
burg without regard to grade,
should provide for the teaching of a
proper attitude toward the city. By
this we mean that the girls and boys
should be taught to know its virtues
and sing it's praise on all occasions
and everywhere. Civic loyalty ought
to be the first consideration of the
good citizen and we cannot hope to
have good citizens unless we teach
the children the good things we
know of Harrisburg. Already many
of our wideawake teachers are do
ing this; all should be doing it.
The school children should be
made familiar with all the great
public improvements, their purpose
ana their results. They should be
weff informed as to all that makes
for civic loyalty so that as they grow
older and take their places in the
ranks of our citizenry they may be
able to achieve still greater things
for the city which stands out as a
beacon light for hundreds of mu-
inequalities throughout the country
DR.. Finegan, DR.. Becht and other
educational leaders are urging the
school authorities to push this form
OF instruction and we have no doubt
whatever that under the new order
in the school activities of Pennsyl
vania civic loyalty and civic Interest
and civic activities will have proper
and intelligent consideration.
But here in Harrisburg We mus
lead the way, and all of our people
must have been impressed durint
the last few years with the splendit
cooperation of the school authori
ties and the school children in ever!
public demonstration. Their RECORD
during the war was most creditabl
and their activities in peace ough
20 be no less so.
Il ought to be possible here ii
Harrisburg to prepare such 1eafiet
IS vill admit OF examinations. per
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
ELECTION RESULTS

|" HE election results in Dauphin
county are precisely what had
been anticipated. The Repub-
lican victory is sweeping and de-
cisive. The big vote polled in many
districts in the face of wretched
weather is an indication of the inter-
est of the voters and their deter
mination to register their wills this
year as an indication of what they
mean to do in the Presidential con-
test next year.
Personally, many of the Demo-
cratic candidates compared very fa-
vorably with their Republican oppo-
nents, but this is Republican
county and all things being equal
and the party leadership being sat-
isfactory to the voters, Republican
victory was to be expected. That it
was overwhelming indicates the
temper of voters not only in the
party but on the Democratic side
as well, for it is doubtful if the
official returns will show that any
thing like a normal minority vote
was cast for the bulk of the ticket.
The Republicans elected yesterday
go into office with the confidence of
the people and with the RESPONSE
bility on their shoulders of seeing to
it that official duties are as satis-
factorily performed under the new
administration as they were under
that just coming to a close.
The results of the election are a
tribute to the leadership of Lieu
tenant Governor Beidleman, w.
Harry Baker and those with them
who are standard bearers of Re-
publicanism in this city and county.
Never has the local government
been better administered. Never has
the party been more harmonious or
more closely united. The Republi-
cans of Harrisburg and Dauphin
county at large are in splendid po-
sition to wage a successful contest
in the crucial election of 1920.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
Modern Sunken Treasure

[From the Youths Companion.]
The treasure that modern salvage
ships are raising from the sea might
we'll make those old adventurers
who used to search for sunken GAL
Icons turn in their graves with envy.
In one day the salvage ship Racer
got s350,OOO worth of gold from the
White Star liner Laurentic, which
was sunk in 1917 off one of the
northern headiands Of Ireland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
Why the Objection?
[From the Paterson IN. J.) Mornin

[From the Paterson IN. J.) Morning
Call
One of the questions propounded
to President Wilson at San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, was as follows:
"Is 1t true that under the league
of nations foreign countries can
order the sending of American
troops to foreign countries?"
To this President Wilson replied:
"It is not. The right of Congress
to determine such questions Is In
no wise impaired"
If this is so why should there be
any strenuous objection to having
the Senate state this in specific
terms In . reservation to the
treatyS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
RED CROSS IN PEACE

vKTHAT the Red Cross meant in
w the war need not be impressed
upon the mind of any intelli-
gent person. That chapter will
illumine the pages of history until
time shall be no more. But what
the great organization built up in a
world crisis is to mean in peace
depends largely upon the response of
the American people to the present
appeal.
DR.. Stockton Axson, the national
secretary of the Red Cross, gave a
Harrisburg audience an inspiring
picture of the work accomplished
and a companion word etching of
the opportunities for still greater
service in healing the world wounds
and safeguarding the health of the
American people by removing the
menace of preventable disease. He
impressively described the desolation
of homes by the invasion of tuber-
culosis, the awful mortality of
babies, the unnecessary deaths from
diseases that may be wiped out and
the unsanitary conditions which
threaten whole communities. To this
task the Red Cross will now devote
it's energies, making effective the ef-
ficient forces and instrumentalities
built UP during the war activities
and duplicating in peace its unsur-
passed record in the war
It's a call-to service which will
be answered wherever men and
women and children understand the
meaning of the word, and in this
good old town we shall be greatly
surprised to see anything less thar
hundred per cent. response in the
cam paign for $4,000 members and
100000 cash to finish the job ant
carry on.
Those Massachusetts, figures shov
....,. ~ q ipl,, that the American neoDlt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

haps, II these be wise or desirable,
on the advantages and attractions OF
Harrisburg, to the end that the
school children may be prepared to
talk intelligently of their home city
and to boost it among young and
old at every opportunity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

And now. that the $4,000 loan is
passed Harrisburg can begin to take
en- the airs of real summer resort.
The only thing Atlantic City viii
have on us are a few breakers and a
lot of high prices.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05
When Wicked Are Destroyed

And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall con-
sumo with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the bright
ness of his coming.-H Thessalonians
II. ..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

Has anybody seen anything lately
of that old-time. ever-bloomng,
perennial! Democratic majority in
Kentucky?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

BY the absence of furs and the
number of thin dresses to be seen on
the streets, it is fair to assume that
we are going to have cold weather.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

Seems to us we see looming up
ahead n 1920 Republican majority that
is growing like the proverbial snow
ball.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

for the Red Cross in the war and for
the several other incidental matters
that ought to be wiped out through
the cooperation of all the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-05

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