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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
4 BREEDER OF SLUMS.
[From the Literary Digest. ]

\ intimate relation that we are
~ in danger of ignoring is point
ed out between a five cent fare
and decent life. No one denies that
there is "a natural right of every
man to live decently, and in an en-
vironment that has some element of
attractiVeness, even actual beauty"
While stating this claim, Mr.. Ralph
Adams Cram points out that since
the last decade of the eighteenth
century down to the outbreak of
the war, living conditions, at least
for workmen, have been growing
steadily worse. Sporadic improve
ments notwithstanding, industrial
cities furnish "slums that in their
uglincss and their disease breeding
and vice-breedins conditions were as
bad as any recorded in history" Mr..
Cram. who is a well-known archi-
tect and is chairman of the Boston
City Planning Board, dwells in Re-
construction (New York; on the re-
lation between high street-car fares
and city slums in a way to arrest
attention:
1--WE confront the necessity OF
building a new world on the ruins
of one that has fallen, not without
some signs of discredit. We have
the free choice of building up a
new era of real civilization or of re-
verting to another period of Dark
Ages. On the choice we make de-
pends the future of the world for
the next five hundred years What
is our choice? Are we going to
Weld to the reactionary. status quo
influences now showing themselves:
are we going to submit to the Boil
shevik anarchy that, whatever it's
pretensions, can have issue only in
barbarism equal to, il profoundly
different from. the barbarism of the
nineteenth century; or are we going
TO learn the lesson of the war.
scrapping our old superstitions and
our old methods as we scraD the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
HIS LETTER
Beyond the steel and the fire
Cleans the old desire

Beyond the steel and the fire
Cleans the old desire.
War has not taken wonder away.
More poignant where its lightings
play
The appeal of beauty's lonely cry!
shall go dreaming till l die.
see wind Furnished coin bright
towns,
And roads that shine across the
downs
A dusk of forest and a line
OF light that silvers the design
Always the shadowed and the bright
A halo for the blacklist night!
Islands where I have never been;
The rainbow topping down the
green
OF tilted seas that rake a ship;
The molten lava streams that slip
From fiery crater rims and fill
The dark with rose and daffodil:
Lakes mountain hid and spiritual;
The undiscovered waterfall
Like white feather through the
trees,
The undiscovered bird in these
Singing, always alone, alone,
The lovely voice of the unknown
This is Romance chameleon clad
That called me when / was a lad,
That calls me now to follow well
Through blighted Picardy to hell,
Through hell to some elusive bliss
OF new adventure after this;
To follow without asking why!
So you will know, If I must die
Upon this last and strangest quest.
1t did not differ from the rest
In simple wonder dark and bright.
A halo for the blacklist night:
And freedom like the unknown bird
Was wild voice / had not heard,
Was a pure voice 1 fought to hear!
These words to you. my very dear,
Beyond the steel and the fire
Cleans the old desire.
Grace Hazard Conkling in the At
lantic Monthly g.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
AN IMPORTANT PLACE

40 appointment that Governor
M Sproul will make will be of
more Importance or have a
greater effect on the future life OF
Pennsylvania people than that of
State superintendent OF Public In
struction. Doubtless. it is for that
reason that the Governor is pro-
reeding with great deiiberation in
his selection of a man. The whole
Iystem of education in Pennsylvania
needs revision, not because it is bad
Is 1t stands, buI because 1t is an
liouated and does not measure UP
20 the requirements of the recon
Itruction period. Whoever is chosen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
FOR A MODEL CITY

~OLONEL EDWARD MARTINS
~ effort to make Harrisburg a
model city from the standpoint
of health and sanitation will meet
with the hearty support and cordial
Coz operation of every loyal Harris
burg man and woman. The State
Health Department has done a great
work in Pennsylvania, but it is cap
able of doing much more, and
Colonel Martin at the very outset OF
%his administration clearly indicates
that he has the vision, energy and
ability to carry out the work so well
begun by the late DR.. Dixon, and to
improve its service and add much
to its scope and usefulness.
Harrisburg should grasp at the
! opportunity afforded by the Commits
sioner's offer. Both the city and the
State have much TO gain by the ex-
pertinent. Harrisburg has consider
able that may be improved, but it
was not because this city is a "hor-
rible example" we rNdge,. that
Colonel Martin chose il from among
all the municipalities of the State
for purposes of demonstration. His
proposal is in full accord with the
policies of Governor Sproul with re-
spect to the Capital City, its develop
ment and its future. Recognizing
the desire of a great majority of our
people to help themselves TO the ex
tent of their resources and ability,
the Governor has wisely decided to
give whatever may be required in
addition to make OF Harrisburg a city
OF which all Pennsylvania may be
proud and which shall be an ex-
ample for all such as aspire to the
best that modern life affords in liv-
ing conditions, civic development,
and beauty.
Thousands of people come to Har-
rtsburg every week to visit the seat
of government, and Colonel Martin
has wisely sensed the importance of
sending them home impressed with
what they have seen here and carry
ing with them lessons in public
health and sanitation that will rem
oei ACT IiS thS Sloulu OF Otner cities
for the seed the Health Department
desires to SOW.
Properly conducted, a campaign
such as the Commissioner contem-
plates can be of vast good to both
city and State. He will find the
people here ready and willing to
assist to the limit. The conference
at which preliminary plans are to he
discussed should be largely attended.
and doubtless will be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
State Aid as Right, Not FAVOR

State aid for private and i-pri-
vate charities, as it has been given in
Pennsylvania for many years, has
been apportioned without system and
often with but small relation to the
real merits of the institutions re-
ceiving State money. We have in
theory a system of supervision. but
the Legislature is not bound to fol-
low the recommendations of its ap-
pointed advisers in the Board of
Public Charities, and the appropria-
tons habitually go by favor or tradi-
ton. Tainted by the suspicion of
log-rolling. worthy institutions are
unjustly discredited. others get an
undue share of the public dole. and
the aggregate actually allotted is
often greater than the sums avail
able.-Philadelphi Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
NOU, When 1t FlODereth

Now, when it flowereth.
And when the banks and fields
Are greener every day,
And sweet is each birds breath,
In the tree where he builds
Singing after his way
Spring comes to us with hasty step
and brief,
Everywhere in leaf,
And everywhere makes people laugh
and play.
-Rinaldo d'Aquino (Thirteenth
Century; tr. from the Italian by
ID. q. Rossetti.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Philip w. Blake, Allentown
Commerce Chamber secretary, says
a new station is coming for that CITY,
II. Ellsworth Davies, the Scran-
ton coal land expert has been en-
gagged in Northumberland county to
get the values revised.
Charles L. Huston, Coatesville
manufacturer, has been chosen a
commissioner to the Presbyterian
General Assembly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
Woman Earns Easter Bonnet

II Mrs. NJ. J. Porter should pay
s32 for a spring hat it will be no.
body's business but her own. as she
came by the money unexpectedly re-
Gently, and il is all hers. She noticed
an old wolf around a tree stump.
and when she investigated she found
eight young wolves. She killed them
all, and as the bounty on wolves
was 81 a head. she came out ahead.
-[From the Leon Reporter.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
When The Foolish Take Root

I have seen the foolish take root;
but suddenly 1 cursed his habitation.
His children are far from safety,
and they are crushed in the gate,
neither is there any TO deliver them.
JOB V, 3 and 4.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Much of the misunderstanding re-
garding the doings at the Paris Peace
Conference is the result of the failure
to make good the promise that there
should be publicity of the most pitiless
character. President Wilson gave his
eountrymen to understand that there
would be no secret pow-wowing in the
settlement of the world war, but there
has been nothing else from the begin
ring o: the negotiations. And because
of the concealment of the moves behind
the screen, there has beenmuch misin-
formation that has had a tendency to
upset the public mind everywhere. Per-
haps the most satisfying thing that has
come out of the atmosphere of rumor
and uncertainty recently has been the
statement that Germany must pay UP
to the last farthing of her power"
Nothing less will satisfy the American
people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

HRlNG your pedu 10 CHuESII,
x urges the Rev. Clayton Albert
Smucker. pastor of stephens
Memorial Methodist Church.
Good advice. to be sure, but is il
necessary? We hope not. Why
Doctor. dear. back in our day and
generation of young manhood. which
is not so far in the past that ouI
memory fails to recall very distinct
" its palpitating experiences, you
couldn't keep us away from church
when the dear girl who now presides
over our domestic destinies was
among those present. Always on
such occasions we swelled the con-
gregation by one-and IL we could
spend the whole evening by her side
in the family pew, why the preach
er's vision of future heavenly bliss
held no attractions for us-we
knew il could be but a poor imita-
ton of that which we for the mo-
ment were enjoying.
Why did we go? Well, there were
of her own charming presence and
again there was the fear of that
other fellow" Oh, Doctor, dear,
if you are looking for a sermon sub
ject, you will find it in that wretched
kill-joy, the other fellow. Preach a
sermon on the virtue of letting the
other fellows girl alone and you
will make a staunch friend of every
young man in Harrisburg who boasts
STEADY company" but YOU may not
make much of a hit with the girls.
Come to think of it, though, that
"other fellow did serve a useful
purpose occasionally, when a late
dinner or other untoward circum-
stances drove us TO the necessity of
meeting her after services for that
delightful but all-too-brief jour
ney to her parental domicile. The
chap who invented the saying: The
longest way around is the nearest
way home" must have based it on
after church walks with his girl.
Well, at such times, we restrained a
desire to loaf around outside until
the sermon was over, because we
knew from painful experience that
the villain aforementioned would
be lurking about and it behooved
US TO be inside and we'll to the fore
If we were to make sure OF the favor
and company OF the lady in question
And so we got a reputation for
church attendance that otherwise
might not have been the case, and
so did many other young gallants
we knew.
1t was never necessary to urge
the girls to bring their beaus to
church in those days. The trouble
most of them had was keeping free
of 'em for an evening to give some
other young chap a chance, and il
human nature has changed so much
in a generation, we don't wonder
folks are alarmed for the future OF
civilization. Are you sure you aren't
barking up an empty tree, Doctor?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Commissioner Lynch is showing a lot
of energy in the resurfacing and re-
pairing of the highways Of the city.
May we not hope that the Department
OF Parks. will manifest a like zeal in
looking after the shade trees Of Harris
burg which have been so long neglected.
Meanwhile those tree stumps along
Walnut street in front OF the Federal
building should be displaced by thriving
young trees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
HISTORIC HARRISBURG.

Just 100 years ago advertising
for the organization of the Union
Canal Company, formed here, was
begun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
will have a difficult and arduous
task on his hands.

will have a difficult and arduous
task on his hands.
Much progress has been made
since the State Board of Education
came into being, but by the very
nature of the situation brought about
by what amounted in more or less
degree to dual responsibility, the
activities of the Board have been to
a large extent limited.
We have come to a period in the
school history of the State where the
need is urgent for a big, unbiased,
energetic, devoted man to head our
Department of Education. He must
come to his duties unprejudiced,
keenly alive to the diversity of opin-
ion with respect to the relative i'm
portance of this or that method or
branch of school work and desirous
solely of evolving a system for Penn
sylvania, not only abreast with those
of other progressive Commonwealths,
but in advance of them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Members Of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights of republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Representatives of the Federation
of British Industries. of the National
Alliance of Employers and Employed
and of labor generally. met in London
recently to consider the scheme out
lined in the recent reports for the
Housing committee relating to the in
formation of Public Utility Societies
as a partial means of solution of the
housing problem after war. The fed
Grafton delegates represented over
10000 firms. while the trade union
representatives stood for a member
ship Of a million and half.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Cereal mill workers in Cincinnati
are being organized by the Interna
tional Union of United Brewery, Ger
cal and Soft Drink Workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has been inn
proving its churches faster than
any city of its size in the State
the last ten years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

Nearly 2S per cent. of the factory
workers in India are employed In cot.
ton and spinning and weaving mills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14

The output from the coal mines ii
Great Britain during 1918 amounted
to over 227,9S7.000 tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
LABOR NOTES

A British dyestuff concern has been
organized for the purpose of controll-
ing the business heretofore held by
German firms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
MONDAY, APRIL II, 1919

Kind rords produce their orn image
in mems souls, and q beautiful image
it is.-PGScdl.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-14
CAN IT BE TRUE?

DRING your beau to church, y
x urges the Rev. Clayton Albert
Smucker. pastor of stephens
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Only q few minutes
from Me' Shopping 4
and Theatrical 2
District.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Now, the DcllcCldlIc oOlI
and Country Club is in full
SWING and is fully prepared to
give the members and their
guests that quality of service
which one has the right to ex-
pect of CLUB Of this excep-
tlonal character.
The kitchen is working fine.
The golf course is in splen-
did condition.
The dining rooms upstairs
and down, because of their
close proximity to the kitchen,
assure diners Of prompt and
satisfactory attention.
The formal opening OF the
Club house and grounds was
success.
The plan adopted Of offer
ing prizes for week. y events has
been received by members with
enthusiasm.
The invitation extended to
golf organizations Of business
men to use the Club house and
grounds on days other than
holidays, Saturdays and Sun
days has been accepted by sew
eral organizations already.
You see. Bayside. Long Isl
and, is such a short distance
and such a short time from the
Pennsylvania Bird Street Sta
ton and it is so short and pleas
ant ride by motor that it is
about the most accessible place
in the metropolitan district for
the home Of the Belleclaire
Golf and Country Club
Open seven days a week.
Members may introduce by
card, as many guests as they
wish on days other than holi-
days. Saturdays and Sundays,
but on these days the number
Of guests must Of necessity be
limited so as not to interfere
with the comfortable playing
Of members.
Hotel Belleclaire eating, rec
ognized everywhere as good
eating. is feature of the Belle
claire Golf and Country Club.
also the courtesies and nice
little attentions which prevail at
the Belleclaire, prevail at the
Club.
Will those interested in OBJ
tanning accommodations at the
Hotel Belleclaire or in becom-
ing members Of the Belleclaire
Golf and Country Club, as
golfers, or tennis players. or
motorists, please write to
Robert D. Blackman,
President,
Hotel Belleclaire,
Broadway at 18th Street,
Noxu Xorl< e.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. G.
 IncluGeS all towns and rural I routes in Jefferson c<yunty out
 side of GreRter BirmfnE ham.
N E K "a M M
 -E M TX N m X

District No. 7- Embraces the counties of St. ClAfr. | Bleunt. M usiint, Madison, .Inck- | son, Dehnib, Cherokee. EtDvvnh, Calhoun and Ciebnrne. This terri
 | tory also includes any tcxriaory iu
 the state of Georgia north rs -Ae
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. g.

Will include all territory in the following named counties in the
 state of AIabnmn, Tuscaloosa. Pickens. Greene, Hale, Perry, Dal- Las. MarenEo. Sumter nnd all other counties in south Alabama west of
 Butler and COyington counties. This district alsO includes that part of the state of Mississippi south of the Mobile and Ohio rnil- road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. 2

Including all territory in the city If Birmingham east of and includ-
 ing Fortieth street and north of the Alabama Great Southern Rail-
 road track, including IrOnda1e.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
Final Vote Scale NEW VOTE SCHEDULE, EFFECTIVE TODAY,
MAKES WINNING EASY

Here is your eleventh-hour chance to make clean sweep and win splendid automobile your reward. It is NOW NEVER!
 THE MAINTAINED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. A.

Including all territory west of the NOEth Highland CAT line, north of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road tracks and east of North street. This district takes in Fountain Heights Graym0nt, East Thomas, Thomas, ElytOn, West End and Cleveland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01

District No. B. Includes all territory in the city | of Birmingham, east of the North | Highlands car line to FOrtieth | street and north of the Alabama Great Southern railroad track.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. 1O--

Includes all terrltory in the fol-
 lowing named countcis in the
 state of AlnbaMa; shelby, Tal-
 iadega. Clay, Randolph, Cham bers. TnilapooAa, COoka, Chiffon. Bibb and ati counties in south Alabama not embraced by District No. 3. This district also includes any territory in the state of Geor- gin south of the A. B. X B. rail-
 road,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-01
District No. g.

Includes the following named
 counties in the state of AInbamas | Walker, Fayetfe, Lamar. Marion, Winston, Cullman, Morgan, Law renee, Franklin, Colbert. 14au-
 derdnle md Limestone. alsO that part of Mississippi lying north of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, in- cluding towns on this line.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Huge Crowds Cheer
Wilson at Capital
And Philadelphia

WASHINGTON, March Anchored
by huge crowds, President and Mrs.
Wilson left the White House lust be-
fore 2 o'clock to-day. They were
driven TO the Union Station, arriving
at 1859 p. m.
The Presidents special train pulled
out on the minute of O'Clock.
PHILADELPHIA, March 4.-Presi-
dent Wilson arrived in this city at 5:15
o'clock this afternoon for brief visit
to his daughter, Mrs. Francis B. Sayre.
and his new grandson, Woodrow Will
son Sayre. The President, accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, was driven from the
station in an automobile to jefferson
Hospital, three blocks away, where his
daughter is a patient. The streets
through which he passed were lined
by cheering crowds.
Every precaution had been taken to
safeguard the President, and ropes
were stretched to prevent the crowds
from overfowing into the streets and
impeding the passage Of the party's
automobiles.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Irish Resolution
Is Lost in Jam
Of Legislation

WASHINGTON, March A. After
passing the House early to-day by a
vote Of 2l6 to al, the resolution ex-
pressing the hope that the peace con-
ference would "favorably consider the
claims of Ireland to the right of self
determination" was caught in the jam
in the last hours of the Senate ses-
sion. Consideration was blocked by
Senator Smith, of Georgia, who OBJ
jected to giving the unanimous con-
sent asked by Senator France, Of
Maryland, and demanded that the res
olution go to the Foreign Affairs Com
mlttee, where similar resolution has
been pending for several months.
Adoption Of the resolution in the
House came after a turbulent all-night
session, in which an organized effort
was made to keep the resolution from
coming to vote. The attempt was
abandoned shortly before o'clock.