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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Ridinq With the Cattle

We rode hard, and brought the cattle
from brushy springs,
From heavy dying thickets, leaves
wet as snow;
From high places, white grassed,
and dry in the wind;
Draws where the quaken asps were
yellow and white,
And the leaves spun and spun like
money spinning,
We poured then onto the trail, and
rode for town.
Men in the fields leaned forward in
the wind,
stood in the stubble and watched the
cattle passing.
The wind bowed all, the stubble
shook like a shirt.
We threw the reins by the yellow
and black fields, and rode,
And came, riding together, into the
town,
Which is by the gray bridge, where
the alders are.
The white barked alder trees drop
ping big leaves
Yellow and black, into the cold
black water.
Children, little cold boys, watched
after us
The sreezing winds tapped their
clothes like windmill paddles.
Down the fiat frosty road we
crowded the herd;
High stepped the horses for us,
proud riders in autumn.
--H. L. Davis in Poetry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
In the School of War

[John Jay in the Continental Edi-
ton of the London MALL.
L recently met young man whose
university course was interrupted by
the war. He doubted if the threads
could be picked up again or if his
brain were in condition to stand a
course of hard study.
Three years wasted" he eXclaim-
ed bitterly-and in haste.
Many young men feel the same to-
day. They cannot get down to the
hard grind of pre-war times, and
there is a temptation to think their
education has suffered from the in
terruption caused by the war.
, But the years have not been
wasted. We have gained a knowledge
of human nature which could scarce
ly have been ours under other cir
cumstances. Through days and
nights we have lived with all
sorts and conditions of men: they
have not attempted to hide their
thoughts and feelings from us. We
have seen them in all moods and
under soul revealing influences until
we know them through and through
Here is an education in itself.
Whatever trade or calling a man
may follow knowledge of his fellows
is essential.
We have had time to think. Books
are we'll enough in their way, but
they are mighty poor substitute for
life. Generation after generation OF
students have been content to copy
until original thought is thing quite
rare. In our enforced leisure at tn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
GRIM HUMOR

THE man who runs the funny
column of the magazine, Oral
Hygiene, has grim idea of
humor. For illustration, he prints
the following under the caption of
Jokes"
The father of a large family as
serts that he gets more comfort and
rest out of an old arithmetic. pub
lished in 1898, than in any other.
volume. This is particularly so
after checking up the household
bills for the month. Just listen to
this: III twenty-one pounds of
sugar can be bought for dollar,
other choice bit: John goes to the
grocery store with Il dollar bill;
he buys two pounds of butter at
twenty cents a pound, and dozen
eggs for eighteen cents-how much
change should he receives? Mrs.
Smith pays five cents quart for
miIk-how much is her milk bill
for four weeks il she uses two
quarts day.
Now that may be side-splitting
stuff for a rich, plutocratic editor
like our friend who gets out Oral
Hygiene, but It's anything but funny
to a poor newspaperman who has to
hesitate each market day between a
pound of roundsteak and a soup
bone.
Yes, fellow craftsmen, we remem-
ber the good old days when mother
went down to market Saturday
morning, armed only with big bas-
ket and a dollar and quarter in
silver, and returned with enough
stuff to keep the family from hol-
lering about the quality or the guam
tity of the grub until the following
Wednesday. We recall the day when
one could eat two fried eggs at a
sitting and not blush to add a gener-
Gus piece of fried ham to the feast.
And there was q time when bread
and milk were spurned by boys and
girls as too cheap to be really good.
Yes. indeed, these are all easily
proven facts, beyond dispute, but
why harrow up our memories with
thoughts of them? It's all very well
to have to stave the sheriff off each
Saturday in order to grease the skill
let with enough fat meat to make
the gravy taste like the real thing,
but we want nobody intruding their
alleged humor on our grief. And
when we are piling up dentist bills
in vain efforts to Fletcherize a piece
of roundsteak that has cost us the
price of spring suit, we want to be
left to the sad duty In the sack
cloth and ashes the sorrowful nature
of the occasion demands. We want
no ribald laughter in our anguish.
We want to be alone with our grief;
but we suspect we are having lot
of company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
A RECORD YEAR

rEMBERS of the Harrisburg
M Civic Club may we'll take pride
Ava in the annual report of that
organization as presented by Mrs.
William Henderson, who has just
been honored by reelection as pres
ident.
The past twelve months have
formed a record year in the history
of the organization. No more un-
selfish service has been rendered
by any Harrisburg organization dur
ing the war than by the Civic Club.
The sacrifice it maae in turning over
it's own clubhouse to the use of the
soldiers, sailors and marines quar-
tered in this district or passing
through Harrisburg is an illustra-
ton of the character of the clubs
work.
But the members did more than
merely throw open the doors of
their home-they opened their
hearts, as we'll, and gave of their
time, their energy and their money
to make as happy as possible the lot
of the soldier far from home, amid
surroundings that were not always
conducive to his welfare. The as
sociations the men enjoyed at the
clubhouse were elevating as we'll as
entertaining and manE a lad has
gone home the better for them.
But while the club gave most of
it's attention to war work. it did not
neglect the primary purposes for
which 1t was formed and has kept
alive a number of worthy projects to
the accomplishment of which it is
devoted and will push them through
to completion now that the war
work has slowed down.
The fact that sos women of Har-
risburg, of allwalks of life, are mem
bers of the club shows the popular
interest maintained in it and the
power it is in the affairs of the
community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
WHICH KIND?

AExRT you a fair weather or
II rainy day patriot?
= Are you one of those who
follow the band when the flags are
flying. cheering yourself hoarse for
Old Glory and the Land of the Free.
or-are you one of those who respond
to every call of the government to
duty?
The Victory Loan committee re-
ports that former willing workers in
previous loans are Stacking" in the
campaign just opening. 1t was easy
to serve when the war was on and to
wear a Liberty Loan workers badge
was a decoration that all men covet-
ed. But now. with the fighting over
and the excitement gone, with the
ruck and muck of the wreck of war
to be cleaned up, the job is not so
attractive, but it is just as necessary.
Are you a fair weather or a rainy
day patriot?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Greatest of Little Flags
[From the Youths Companion.

ltfom the 1ouIn companion
Midway of last year the word be-
gan to steal through northern France
and Belgium that American soldiers
were fighting their way into the Ger
man-held country. Now and then
the women saw an American prison.
er or an American soldier who had
been wounded; and frequently they
heard the Germans speak of the
American swine"
Hidden away in secret places those
women had French or Belgian flags,
and now they began to make Ameri-
can flags against the day that they
knew was coming. They searched
in school books for the designs, took
what poor finery the Germans had
left to them and began to sew. When
our boys marched in to take the
place of the retiring Germans, their
eyes beheld on every side those poor,
pathetic homemade flags. Scarcely
one was authoritative. Some had
too many stripes, some not enough.
Scarcely one had the right number
of stars, but in spite of that no more
eloquent bits of bunting ever flew.
They told of something bigger than
a military victory; Of an international
unselfishness, of rescue, of food and
every material help given in SYM
pathy and love.
Those are the flags we should most
like to see. They belong in the Capt.
tol at Washington, where, by looking
at them, our children can learn what
was the greatest thing their fathers
IexeE d. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
TRADE BRIEFS

In 1917 the number of vehicles
registered in the Mexico Federal dis
trict was 9,06S; in 1918 the number
had increased to l 200. Motor cars
of all sorts, including private auto
mobiles, automobiles for hire and
trucks, numbered 1924.
According to the Taiwan Nich1
Nichi Shimpo it was decided at a
meeting of interested parties here in
Toxic, Japan, to amalgamate all the
crude camphor manufacturing
plants of Taiwan into single COM
pany with Il capital of 100000
ven, equivalent to S4,9S0,000.
Preliminary plans for the forma-
ton of two new shipping companies
in Helsingborg, Sweden, have been
| formed. Each company fixes its
foundation capital at $160,S00.
The Bradford City Council, Eng
land, has organized joint consulta-
tive board to consider at regular in
tervaEs questions of wages, hours and
working conditions, and to take nee
essary steps to prevent differences
and misunderstanding between the
| corporations and it's employees.
| The 1919 rice crop is a failure in
| Cochin-C China and will probably not
| exceed so to 20 per cent. OF nor
mai year on account of an eXces-
sively dry season.
| A Swedish line to Morocco will be
in operation in the spring. 1t Will
have one sailing month to the
| African coast. Sweden expects to
export to Morocco manufactures OF
woodenware, iron, steel and copper.
Imports expected are skins, maize,
linseed, linseed oil, peas, fruits and
wax.
Exports certified for shipment to
the United States from San Pedro de
| Macoris, Dominican Republic,
amounted to $S,067,SS1 in 1918, as
against $S.026,455 in 1917.
! Goods destined for inland noun
! famous districts in the vicinity or
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, should be
packed in bundles of a size enabling
a mule or burro to carry two of such
bundles, advises Nice-Consul Stephen
E. Aguirro A strong mule can carry
two bundles weighing 225 to ESQ
pounds, while burros can carry two
bundles about 80 pounds each. Bur-
| ros are being used to facilitate
hacking to mining districts in north
western Chihuahua. Their substi-
tuition for mules is due to political
conditions, which have rendered the
latter very scarce. Such goods as
cables should be packed lengthwise
| for transportation Will SSNOldl ohA-
mails.
The Australian Commonwealth
government has purchased 10000
tons of sugar to make good the Aus
tralian production shortage of last
season.
During 1918 the declared exports
from Christchurch, New Zealand, to
the United States were valued at
$S,S2aS67, as against $5,126,655 in
the preceding year.
A Sheffield, England, firm has con-
verted it's war airplane factory into
a plant for the manufacture of small
scale model locomotives and steam
engines. which were formerly i'm
ported into Great Britain from Ger
many to the extent of over $4,OOO,00O
annually.
| The Department of State has ad-
vised the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce that Consul-Gen-
eral Leo J. Keena has been assigned
as consul-general at Zurich, iSwitzer-
land, and will leave for his post in
| the near future.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23

front we have been compelled to CO.
gitate. Much of our thinking has
been upon the elemental things
love, religion, war-and each of US
has, in his own small way, formu-
lated philosophy of his own. The
future will reap the harvest.
If our thought is clearer our judg-
ment is ripper. We have aged beyond
our years. In way it is q loss, but
it is also gain. Boys, unused to
command or responsibility, have had
both thrust upon them. They have
been made to use their judgment and
to think for themselves.
you youngsters are old men in
business" said q city man to me the
other day, and of many youngsters
it is true.
Contact with so many differing
nationalities has taught us much. 1t
is no mean thing to have studied the
psychology and habits of the enemy,
the French and other Allies, and
ourselves. 1t has been more than the
Grand Tour which went so far to
form the education of the English
gentleman of the past, and we shall
value our broader European outlook
more and more as the years go by.
The young man of whom I spoke
is wrong. The years have not been
wasted. even from his selfish point of
view. On the contrary. they have
been crammed full with vital edu-
cation.
We have missed a little book
learning. but what of that? Our
study has been in the University of
Experience and of Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
ANOTHER STEP

~ EVELOPMENTS in connection
with the Capitol Park improve
ments took another long step
forward yesterday with the introduc-
tion by Senator Frank A. Smith of
bills for the erection of the Soldiers
and Sailors Memorial Bridge at
State street, the construction of an
office building and the grading and
terracing of the grounds in the ex-
tension zone.
Senator Smith is deeply interested
in both park and bridge and he may
be relied upon to get early action on
the measures, especially since they
have the backing of Governor Sproul,
and Lieutenant G overnor Beidleman
and are without apparent opposition
anywhere. The quicker the better,
however, for with these two big i'm
provements under way Harrisburg
vail be we'll able to take care of any
unemployment that may develop in
ritssbuilding trades for the next couple
.oftyears.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Good Roads Contdgion

The demand for permanent high
ways has resulted in what the Telfair
(Ga0 Enterprise calls "the good
roads fever" and tits contagious!"
1t is county-practically a state
wide-rivalry to go in line for last
ing home prosperity, which is exactly
what modern, improved highways
will accomplish.
That's the meaning of good roads
to every town and county!
The Albany, (Ga.) Herald puts it
in this way:
THE county without good roads,
but whose county lines are touched
by the good roads of adjoining coun-
ties, will not tolerate for long the
situation in which she finds herself.
She will get good roads, too, and
share in the prosperity that good
highways never fail to be instru-
mental in producing"
Thus it is that good roads do
missionary work" wherever they
run; they preach the prosperity of
one section to another, and make the
unprogressive places that have been
sleeping over their rights fall in
line. From the Atlanta Constitu-
ton
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
HolU France Is Sdfeguarded
[From the Kansas City Star.l

[From the Kansas City Star.1
Nobody can blame France for
desiring more certain protection
against future German aggression
than the good resolutions in the
covenant of the League of Nations.
But she has the assurance already
in something far stronger than any
treaty engagement. 1t exists in the
situation itself.
The United States does not make
alliances. 1t will not formally guar
antee, French territory with any
specific provision of what it will do
in case France is attacked. Never
theless, events of the last five years
have made the French frontier our
frontier. The same thing is essen
TALLY true of England. The pro-
terests of the United States and Bri-
tain. She stands as our bulwark.
We cannot permit her to be over
whelmed.
1t is an entente from which we
could not escape if we would. No
party can disavow it. France need
not worry over the lack of q writ
ten agreement. She will automatic
ally command help from her allies
of this war because she is part of
that civilization which they must pro-
tect or they perish.-From the Kan
sas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
ALWAYS PATERNALISTIC

IN recent address at Boston,
Secretary of Commerce Redfield
entered a long series of COM
plants because appropriations are
not made in amounts such as he
deems adequate for development of
certain industries and public inter-
ests such as dye manufacturing, nom
ferrous metals, potash, forest pre-
servation, saving of waste timber,
development of water power. use of
fish skins for leather, chemical. pro-
duction, food fish, inland waterways,
etc. After reading over the long list
one cannot help but feel that Mr..
Redfeld has lost all confidence in
the initiative. intelligence and cour-
age of the American individual. He
can see going to waste millions of
neglects opportunities so plainly ap-
parent to his eyes. In making lum-
Der, he says, we waste half the value
known to exist in the tree. Accepting
ut6 dS6CI ltcllS CT law
here are literally billions of wealth
wing around loose for any wide
awake American to pick up like
gold nuggets on the dump of an Ell
dorado. But Americans neglect their
opportunities and the only way Red
ield can see to make use of the
wealth is to make huge government
appropriations and send government
experts" QUITO gather in the sheck-
els.
Mr.. Redfield's pessimistic haran-
que may mislead some people, but it
will not deceive anyone who stops to
think. If the Government has ex-
perts who are able to make profit
put Of that alleged waste of one-half
Of the timber those experts can find
plenty of private capitalists who are
anxious to employ their services,
There isn't lumberman in the coun-
Try but will pay the experts" bet
Ter salary than the Government will
offer, IL the expert" can demon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Farms Under Glass

[Arthur Brisbane in the Chicago
q Herald and Examiner
On the Twentieth Century Limit
ed the other night w. w. Marsh,
National Democratic Committeeman
from Iowa, was talking to Roger
Sullivan, who is the Democratic COM
mitteeman in Illinois.
Mr.. Marsh, who is in politics for
sport, in the cream separator busi-
ness for q living and in the raising
of Guernsey cows for pleasure, made
this statement, which, taken to heart
by about five million Americans,
would solve food problems:
This country knows nothing about
getting wealth from the soil. The
island of Guernsey is about half the
size of a township in Illinois, Wis
consin or Iowa. That island of
fifteen thousand acres supports forty
thousand people well.
Here a farmer is proud if he
takes $50 from an acre in one year.
Guernsey exports in agricultural and
in horticultural products $400 q year
for every acre.
"They have on the island one
thousand miles of glass houses in
which they raise four crops a year
without artificial heat. The houses
are forty-eight feet wide, fourteen
feet high to the ridge of the roof.
Their first crop is early potatoes.
The second string beans. The third
tomatoes. The fourth grapes. that
sell here and abroad for 81 pound
and up. In the early season they
strip the leaves from the grapevines
to let the sun in to the other crops.
This holds the grapes back to lust
the time when they want them. That
is real intensive farming"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
NeW Editor For Thunderer

Wickham Steed's appointment as
editor in the place of Goeffrey Daw-
son means greater change in the
London Times tradition than would
appear. He is the first editor of
the Times who was not an English
public school and oxford man. Wick
ham Steed has had most of his edu-
cation on the Continent, his univer-
sites being Jena, Berlin and Paris.
He was strongly Russophile be-
fore the war and worked hard for an
understanding with Russia. lie has
written much on the Balkan prob
lens, and is claimed by the Jugo-
slavs as one of their chief supports.
He has been Times correspondent
at Berlin, Rome and Vienna. He is
said to be a man of liberal views.
The cynical comment on the ap-
pointment is that, as Mr.. Steed's
interests are mainly concerned with
foreign affairs, Lord Northcliffe will
be able to exercise his complete con-
troll over home politics in a way that
was apparently impossible during Mr..
Dawson's editorship.-From the Liv-
ing Age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Atterbury Coming Home
[Girard in Philadelphia Press1

GGirard in Philadelphia Press1
I am told that Brigadier General
w. w. Atterbury is expected home
from France very shortly.
What a capital book this capital
railroader can write about the i'm
mense achievements in the transpor-
tation department.
Our army of two millions which
faced the Hun on armistice day
was 1000 miles from its base of
supplies.
"Brmg up 10000 fresh troops a
day. carry back the thousands of
wounded feed and cIothe and fur
nish shot, shell and guns for the
two millions who need them" that
was the order General Atterbury
had to FILL
Thomas a. Scott, afterwards pres
ident CT the. Pennsylvania Railroad,
cut out a fine career as transporta-
tion chief in the Civil War, but
Vice-President Atterbury's task i'll
France was far greater.
Ano the Pennsy was on the job
both times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
THAT BATHING BEACH

TT IS little late to be talking of
a municipal bathing beach for
Harrisburg this year. The time
for discussion was last fan when the
budget was under consideration. 1t
is understood that at that time Com
missioner Gross had the item in his
departmental estimates, but permit
ted it to be stricken out without
much protest.
Five thousand dollars a year for
three years would give Harrisburg
such atbeach. or beaches, as would
serve amply the needs of the city
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel Samuel Moody, formerly
q member of the Governors staff and
prominent Pittsburgher, was here
visiting the Capitol. :.
-R. w. Gardiner, commissioner
of the Pittsburgh Coat Producers
Association, one of the largest or
ganizations of the kind in the coun-
try, was at the compensation meet
ing,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23

and at an expense that nobody would
feel. There is always a lot of dis
cussion of this bathing item about
the time the swimming season ap-
proaohes and entirely too little when
the financial program for the year
following is being framed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
To the Point

Out in New Mexico even public
signs come direct to the point. They
do not waste any time in wondering
how the reader will feel about it,
In garage at Albuquerque. is
posted:
Don't smoke around the tank"
If your life isn't worth anything.
gasoline is.;i--ESom szna6nRzQps
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is being
complimented by many visitors
for its plans to~aid In Capitol
Park improvement?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
What Profit Hath He?

in that wherein he Iaboreth? h?-Ec-
clesiastes Ill /
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23

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