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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

name set them sneezing and water
ing at the eyes.
Only the wealthy and more aris-
tocratic objected to the hollyhock
and sunfiower and that mainly be-
cause they are so common and so
cheap.
County schoolboys who indulge in
1nJun fights" were for the poke
berry, while their gentle sisters de-
murely favored the modest, yet
fascinating johnny -jump-up.
A Sad State Song
Speaking of songs, here is one by
an unknown poetizer that is pc
culiar, as you will see, and specially
we'll adapted for band or crowd
of singers. Almost any of those
who sang along before the war can
give you the tune. Or, if you happen
to catch the spirit of the thing you
can make a tune to suit it, or rather
it will suggest or make the tune
itself
My song is of nice young man
His name is Peter Gray,
And the state where Peter Gray was
born
Is Penn-syl-va- mia.
Now Peter Gray did fall in love,
All with nice young girl,
The name of her, I'm positive,
Was Lizzie Annie Querl.
When they were going to be wed
Her father he said no,
And brutally did send her off
Beyond the Ohio.
When Peter found his love was lost
He knew not what to say,
He'd half mind to jump into
The Sus-que- -han-ni-a.
A trading went he to the West,
For furs and other skins,
And there he was in crimson dressed
BY the bloody In-ji-ins.
| When Lizzie Annie heard the news
! She straightway went to bed,
! And never did get out of it
! Until she di-i-ed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Arch Johnston, of Beth
lehem, is home from a trip to the
south for his health.
j. D. A. Morrow, western Penn
sylvania coal expert who has been
in Washington, is visiting western
counties on tax matters.
C. X. Mosser, well known here.
has been chosen president of the
Livingston club, the big Allentown
club.
Congressman George S. Gra-
ham, of Philadelphia, has been
chosen a member of the House judi
ciary committee.
Mayor Thomas B. Smith. Of
Philadelphia, has been improving in
health the last few weeks.
Miss Dorothy Guild. the new
director of the child welfare ac-
tivities of the State Department of
Health, is Philadelphia physician.
w. C. Coffin, Pittsburgh manu-
facturer just home from a western
tour, says he found a good feeling
prevailing in industries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
The Child and the Home

[From the Nashville Tennessean1
The problem of juvenile crime and
its increase of late has been the
subject of much comment and dis
cussion, but in our opinion Judge
Wells, in a recent speech delivered
before the Y. NJ. G. A. at Wander
bilt, put his finger on the chief
cause of this grave evil of our pres
ent life, when he said that in every
case that he had personally investi-
gated the lack of home or proper
home conditions was found as the
accompaniment of the juvenile de-
linquency or criminal conduct. This,
however, does not suggest a simple
remedy or ready solution of the
trouble, as it brings us up against
the proposition that the lack of a
home is a startling feature of our
| modern way of living. There is very
! little home life to be found in any
social class in this country now.
The old conception of a home for
the protective care of children, their
training and discipline and n close
and constant association of the
family, has changed to something in
the shape of a place to change
clothes in, to eat occasional meals
and use as a lodging house and a
receiving station for mail. In fact,
the American home went out some
where between the coming in OF the
automobile and the picture show.
Conceding fully the limitations OF
parents and the lack of ideal con-
ditions in the majority of homes,
still the decadence and virtual dis
appearance of the home mark a
real loss whose importance may be
gauged in the consequent increase OF
Juvenile crime and delinquency
noted with grave apprehension by
sociologists. The very fact OF a
Vigilant parental authority and con-
stant association with discipline and
home habits carries with it steady
ing influence and moral respon.
sibility, which helps to fix the chic
in the paths of order and rectitude
In the constant association of home
and family life the most irrespon'
sible of parents are stimulated tc
more care and vigilance and tht
Children learn the discipline of life
easily and progressively.
The increase of juvenile delin'
uuency has been marked since the
war. and that may be accounted fol
by the number of homes which have
been broken up by the fathers alb
sence and the mother being forced
to leave the home to do her par
for the support of the family. With
out home and the parent-authorit!
and responsibility our future citizens
make bad start in life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
War Junk Cost Was Hiqh

TFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.1
Eventually we shall have paid
out 35 billion dollars in this war.
not including interest, pensions or
other considerations. or this amount
about 10 billion will be due from
foreign nations, and we may or may
not get the money 1t is perfectly
we'll known that a great portion of
our own expenditures was for mate
rials never used.
We had practically no artillery in
France when the armistice was
signed and our airplane showing was
little better. We had enormous
stores in this country for shipment
which never were needed. If Uncle
Sam could sell at cost price the
goods on hand. including such raw
materials as wool and copper, he
would be in excellent financial con-
dition. Unfortunately, this is i'm
possible.
Much of the war material can be
used only as junk 1t is supposed to
be time for turning swords into
plowshares and spears into pruning
hooks, but the cost is great That
is why there is some slowing down
in manufacturing. In probability
several thousand factories work
was going on for a definite purpose
which wholly failed to be of ben
eft.
Uncle Sam is trying to sell his
junk, but most of it is of small COM
mercial value. 1t must be turned
back into raw material with the
great loss of expert labor used on
its original formation. Figures OF
salvage are not complete, but Uncle
Sam hopes to collect one billion dol
lars out of what cost him ten times
as much
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
after Horse Is SfOleu'
[Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday
Evening Post1

samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday
Evening Postl
The average American reads
columns in the daily papers con-
cerning revelations made before GER
tain congressional Committees aDout
pro-Germanism before and duiips
the war in his country. He is
amazed, disgusted and confused over
these revelations, because he cam
not figure out why, If all these
things were going on during the war,
and before it, something wasn't done
then, for the government has not
gathered all this information since
the armistice was signed and had
most of it while the hostilities were
on.
He cannot understand why, with
all this proof available, these men
who are being told about now were
allowed to remain at liberty, or why,
since they were allowed to remain
at liberty at the crucial time, they
are being exposed now, when it is
all over. What's the use?
He doesn't get that phase of it,
to be a monumental case of locking
nor sense the logic of this retro
active crusade, for it seems to HIM
the barn door after the horse has
been stolen, unless indeed the horse
that was stolen wasn't worth much,
and the door locking is merely a
justification for inaction because
some people may have had an ex-
aggerated idea of the value of the
horse.
Any way the average American
looks at it, it perplexes him, for
according to his mind the time to
expose such people is when they are
operating. not when they have quit
1t reminds him of a judicial process
that would send a man to Jail and
not let that fact be known until after
his term was up and he was out and
free again. He can't get the defini-
tive angle on 1t all. unless perhaps
| it would have been politically OF
otherwise injudicious to expose some
of those concerned except in this
| after-the-war manner. He wonders
about that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
Congress Should Reform Itself

Congress ought to reform itself.
but it generally happens that politi-
cal rivalries prevent the action
which Is needed. Congress may by
law establish the time of its meet
ings, and it ought to hurry them up.
but it is probable that any effort to
do so would meet with strong parti-
san opposition. 1t has never be-
fore happened that there was not
national legislative body in session
and at the same time no executive
in the country. The only branch
of our government which is now
functioning at home is the judiciary.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1919
IMPORTANT LUNCHEON

A RNOLD w. Drummer, architect
u in charge of the Capitol Park
development, and ]. E. Greiner,
designer of the proposed State street
memorial bridge, will address the
Chamber of Commerce at luncheon
tomorrow. They will explain at
length just what it is proposed to do.
They will show the grades and new
street lines, the entrances TO the
bridge on both sides and will paint
such picture of the great under
takings as will leave nobody in doubt
as to details.
The speakers should have large
audience. Much as has been written
concerning the park extension and
the viaduct, there is still no little
misunderstanding, or lack of under
standing, as to just what it is planned
20 do. The two improvements are so
loosely linked with the future de-
'elopment of the city that they
hould receive most careful study on
The part of Harrisburg people. Now
is the time to discuss faults or OBJ
iections, if any exist, in order that
they may be corrected before 1T is
100 late. City rights of way through
Tho park and the new bridge ap-
proaches are subjects with which
every resident of the city should be
amiliar. The Chamber of Commerce
ecognizes the importance of united
'ublic sentiment behind the projects
nd the opportunity to obtain first
and information should not be
reelected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
SEND HIM BACK

a AMBASSADOR FRANCIS charges
n that Raymond Robbins, Red
Cross commissioner to Rus
a, is in reality Bolshevik delegate
mt here to try to induce President
Iilson to recognize Lenine and
rrotzky. If that is true, the sooner
f;obbins is sent back to Russia the
otter. How any red-blooded
american, after having seen as
nluch of Russia as Robbins has,
c1uld ask his government to have
.nything to do with the damnable
~'retches in control there is diff
cIlt to understand.
Surely, Robbins cannot be mar
red man. Surely, he cannot have
sister or a mother and still hold
ympathy for Bolshevism. One OF
he tenets of the Lenine and Trotzky
octrine is that women shall all be
ublic property. Any man, under
olshevik rule, may have any
oman he chooses, whether married
: single. The dirtiest, 'vilest wretch
rom the gutter is entitled to any
yoman or girl he desires, whether
she or her husbf nd or father oi
trother objects or no, and, if any
~ them do try to protect her, they
re to be thrown into Jail or exc.
,Nted.
If this is the kind of Red Cros.
Commissioner Robbins is, he has dis,
raced a noble organization, and ii
J high time we shipped him bach
J. Moscow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
REAL CAPITAL CITY

~ OVERNOR SPROUL is deter
- mined to concentrate the scat
~ tered State officials in Harris
burg and is having the cordial ap-
proval of the public in this policy.
Too long State officials have found
it convenient for themselves to drift
outside Harrisburg for personal or
family reasons. The Governor is
now determined that the authorities
of the State shall be focused here,
and his spirited address before the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce,
in which he dwelt upon the necessity
for additional dwellings in this city to
accommodate the returning officials,
was an evidence of his earnestness
in this matter.
Last week several divisions of the
more important departments were
ordered to Harrisburg from Phila-
delphia, and as soon as space is pro-
vided for others they will return
here so that there may be an ef-
ficient concentration of all the State
activities at the Capitol.
1t is because OF these conditions
that Governor Sproul and the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings are
urging the erection of at least one
of the State office buildings during
the present year, Meanwhile it is
up to Harrisburg to cooperate in
every way so that there may be am
pie housing facilities for all who de.
sire to live here. 1t is certain from
all indications that the demand for
houses will be Increasingly urgent
during the next few months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

honor of the soldiers of that progress
i've West Shore borough. 1t is credit
spirit of the people across the river
that they realize the Importance OF
tree planting and recognize in "trib-
ute trees" proper memorials to their
soldiers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
BENEFIT FROM FAILURE

THE happy suburbanites of a
New Jersey town held a celebra-
ton the. other night because Con-
ess failed to repeal the daylight
wing law. And we'll they might
ongress failed to do lot of things
{ should have done and did lot OF
5ings 1T should not have done, bu,
- neglect is not without its bless
'lgs, for it is pretty certain that il
% agricultural bill had gone
rough the anti-daylight rider
ould have gone along. So for an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
MoDe Frontier to Saue Paris

Paris takes a practical view of a
geographical question of world wide
interest. 1t holds that it is too near
the German frontier This is fact
which the Germans have been at
great pains to make plain. Being
so near the German frontier, Paris
thinks. 1t is likely to be menaced in
the future at it has been in the past.
1t seems clear, then, that something
should be done. Paris cannot be
moved from its present site. Such
being the case, the only way to over
come the difficulty, as Paris sees 1t,
is to set back the German frontier
to a safe distance. In the light of
all the information at hand, THIS
seems like reasonable solution of
the problem.-From the Christian
Science Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
His ReWdrd

The nervous wreck had explained
at great length his symptoms. All
that were described in the medical
books he had, and some besides.
"Do YOU understand me?" he fl
nally asked the doctor. when he had
ended his enumeration.
I'll give you something for your
pains. From the Detroit Free
Press. E5
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's volume of
mail matter has been showing n
steady increase for the last two
years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
Proposed State Song

~ RASMUS Wilson, the sage of
the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
is enjoying the discussion of the
State song bills. He quotes the
latest aspirant for fame-and place
saying:
"Old Pennsylvania of mine,
bow me at thy sacred shrine,
And there beneath Gods .vaulted
swear vow for home, sweet home.
THE keystone State that binds the
whole,
With pride we look upon the scroll,
And read among the battle scars
The glory writ in golden stars.
within the shade of Fort Duquesne
In peace the farmer sows his grain,
And bending harvests richly grow
Where Susquehanna's waters tioW.'
The composer then goes on with
seven more verses, in which he re-
fers to the Indian war-cry, the
changing anvil, Valley Forge, Gettys-
burg, the Independence bell.
House Bill No. 21s
This act formally proposes the
adoption of the song quoted above Qn
part) as the official State song for
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
which is credited in the bill to "Dr.
Will George Butler, director of
music of the Mansfield, Pa, State
Normal School,"
The object in printing the above
sample of the proposed official state
song is to give the citizens of the
Commonwealth and opportunity to
judge of its merits, and then to boost
the passage of the bill, or not as
the spirit of patriotism may move
them.
There are some striking lines in
it, for instance those referring to
the farmer sowing his grain within
the shade of Fort Duquesne" and to
the bending harvests in the Susque-
hanna River.
However, poets and song writers
are allowed considerable license, but
in such cases they should be re-
quired to accompany their manu-
scripts with diagrams, and the
scenario with moving picture films.
State Songs
EoOillt Vi lilt oldlCo hdNS oOhSSi SSe
but few, il any, have been adopted
by Legislatures, whether because
none of those offered have been good
enough, or through fear of offend
ing the authors and friends of those
rejected.
No doubt there are some, many
indeed, who will try to laugh DR.
Buffers effort into the discard, for
there are always those who dislike
songs, and music, and poems which
their several authors, and their
friends, regard as classics and fit to
take the bun.
AS matter of course some oil
those who sit in Judgment on this
song wouldn't know a state song
from a hymn, and couldn't distin-
guish between a stately air and q
ragtime roulade. For this reason
a State Legislature should not be
asked to pass on the merits of q
State song. or any other. for thai
matter. Better leave it to com.
mission composed of the friends oi
the several composers, and await
their unanimous verdict. Naturally
such a commission would have to be
empowered TO perpetuate itself in.
definitely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

We recommend that the Peace Com
mission Committee investigating the
r,aisers responsibility for the war
lad the Telegraph's serial, THE Pri-
,ate Life of the Kaiser"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
IL OF not os1erwhe e the incoi iSrSIii,eu & IN h Iis
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
LABOR NOTES

Canadian boot and shoe workers
are demanding an increase of ten
per cent. in their pay and nine
hour workday.
Membership in British trade
unions increased from 100000 to
100000 during the war.
Repair works absorb about 40 per
cent. of the labor and machinery in
British shipyards.
In many localities throughout the
United States manufacturers are
shutting down their plants to read
just wages.
Since last September over 10000
girls employed in Chicago indus
trial plants have been instructed
in social hygiene.
The employment of non-union la
Dor caused over 1000 workers on
the ship canal docks at Manchester,
England, to quit work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
State Flowers

Only a few years ago number of
State Legis atures were almost dis
rupted while endeavoring to choose
State flowers. In this State members
from the mountainous parts con-
tended for the trailing arbutus. while
those from the low grounds stood
up for golden rod and others from
tie back counties insisted on some
thing more easily discernible by the
naked eye, such as the hollyhock
and sunfiower.
Timid folks objected 10 arbutus.
claiming that 1t fiourishes best
where rattle snakes are most plenti-
full, while hayfever victims rose en-
masse against the goldenrod, assert
ing that even the mention OF the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
MORAL:

Now ye fathers all warning take,
Each one that's got a girl,
And think upon poor Peter GRAY
And Lizzie Annie Querl.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Harrisburg post offices have been
located on Second, Market and
Walnut streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10
'Poetsca ;~
'Ps~~aaesania
BY the Ex-Committceman

Probably the most discussed sub
Ject among men who follow the
trend of politics in Pennsylvania is
the confidence members of the Leg
lslature are displaying in Governor
William c. Sproul. To an extent
not known here in many years the
general assembly is depending upon
the Governor for guidance in enact
ments of legislation and it is expect
ed that the important bills which
nave been so much discussed will
make their appearance at an early
day. The illness of the Governor
following his sojourn at the confer
ence of the Governors where he rep
resented Pennsylvania in a way that
attracted much attention interfered
materially with the introduction of
the legislation planned by the State
Executive.
Two causes are assigned for the
situation as it now exists among
the legislators. One is that the
members recognize the Governor as
the most experienced legislator in
the State by reason of his unusually
long service in the upper house. The
other is shat his inaugural address
is considered one of the best pro-
grams ever outlined by a new Gov
ernor. Then, too, it is recognized
that the Governor is a man of large
business interests and that he is
working on plans to put some of the
principles which made him success
full in large enterprises into effect
in the State government, which takes
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

1t can be expected now, say OBJ
servers of things at the Capitol that
the administration legislation will
commence to come along rapidly and
a continuance of the support of the
Governor is predicted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-10

Some people in Philadelphia are
getting around to the idea that when
the talking is all done and the fire.
works shot off that new Philadel-
phia charter bill will be arranged
with the Governor bringing about an
adjustment of difficulties. The same
is believed likely in regard to second
class legislation. about which the
average up State legislator declines to
get excited.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-01
LEGO A PUERTO MEXICO
SALVADOR ALYARADO
CONFERENCE.-THE con los ie5es
encargadcs de Ia campa-
ia en- ei IsEmo.

CIUDAD DE MENICO, Die. 80
En- IL Secretaria de Guerra Sc rcci-
bicrcn informes de que Salvador Al
varado, .Iefe dc las O~peraciones en-
los EStados del Sur dc Ia ~Republica.
habia llegado 4 Puerto Mexico. con
objeto de confererciar con los ceres
dc las armas de csa region. a lin de
ponerse dc acuerdo para hacer mas
activa la campana.
En- Puerto Mexico tiene .Alyarado
cstablecido su Quartet general. y. So
gun Sc dice. a cl SC han dirigido al
gunos cabecillas rebcldeS cue dese@n
ammistiarse, para 10 cual tambi@n s.
asegura que fue Aiyarado. uucs dI-
chos cabecillas cyigieron tratar per-
sonalmente con el Jefc de las Opera
clones.
Alvarado esrari De regreso en- esta
capital para los primeros dias del
ano ~entrante.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-01-01
Quicn eS Gic-dapi

e. individuo de este apeiljdo. e TIA
iiaro. como lc habian dado en- decir
los periodicos. : que al principle 70
suite ser 81 personaje mas intereSan-
te del case. eSt3 - pcrfcctamcntc
idcatificaio. Segun documentcs que
mosrr6 a los ~iueccs ante q~uienes de-
claro. No es italiano, sino cubano dc
nacionalidad. hace tempo que vive
en- Mexico. Y siemnrc h. prestado
titles scrvicioS en- la poiicia reserv&-
da. Ash Sc dcsprende dc las crccen-
cialcs que mostr6 = los .iUeccs, Y que
10 abonan como hombrc habll. actI-
vo Y may tr~abajador en- ei ramo dc
comisiones de Seguridad pdblica. Es-
te quedari descarraGo probablemcnte
del asunto. quedado en- completa L.
bertaG Y deGicado 4 sus funcioncS.