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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

Does it mean anything to you when
YOU realize that after the Reaper,
Grim Death" had called at this
home, that the undertaken and his
assistants took their lives into their
own hands and, never hesitating,
faced the terrible disease and put
forth every effort to make the sur
roundings sanitary and safe for the
remainder of the family as we'll as
the community at large.
With this Thought foremost in
your mind you cannot help but real
ize that the undertaken is Il neces-
sity to a community and not blot
of black to be feared and avoided
Cleanliness is next to godliness. -
Sanitat ton is cleanliness and is the
dim of every good undertaken, SC
any intelligent person can sec that
the men in this profession helped
guard and protect you instead OF
reaping n harvest unjustly off YOU
Give these men credit for what
they have done and will do in the
future and when tempted to say
anything detrimental-stop
consider.
r. B. O'Iara. 2617 Agate st.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
HIGH TRIBUTE TO SIMS

(From the Independent, New York;
Admiral Sims came to be looked
upon in foreign naVies not only as
the american admiral" but as a
brother officer One of the many
dem onstrations of this fact is that
in conservative old England, which
still steadfastly adheres to many
formalities of past ages, they actu-
ally proposed to make Admiral
Sims an active member of the board
of the admiralty. This is what that
meant:
The British Navy is controlled
differently from our own-hrst, by
civilian secretary sailed first
lord" and, second. by the so-called
board of the admiralty. This board
is bound up in ancient laws which
still exist to-day. It's members are
the principal naval officers of the
British admiralty which corresponds
to our Navy Department. The mem-
bers of the board of admiralty are
legally known as commissioners for
executing the office of the lord high
admiral of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain, Ireland, etc - and
important official correspondence of
the admiralty starts off with the
phrase, The lords commissioners
of the admiralty have this day, etc"
Furthermore, the office of the first
lord, corresponding to our Secretary
of the Navy. is bound down with
many restrictions. There are many
important questions concerning the
British Navy and it's direction which
are not legal if issued and signed
alone by the first lord. They must
have the concurrence of at least a
-A,s I,nt. I l.. .
board. who are known as sea
lords"
The respect and the feeling held
by the heads of the British Navy for
Admiral Sims was shown by the un-
precedented proposal to submit the
admirars name to the king to serve
as an honorary member of the board
of the admiralty. The French fol-
lowed with the same proposal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

iall our national and cultural neces-
stiles can be fully satisfied.
We do not need Italy; we do not
want Italy. Italy can be our good
neighbor, or the worst enemy. No
guardian, no tutor. If we ever need
any, only the American people will
be our guardian.
We have to be all killed, or
starved, before we give our sea coast
and our islands. Italy. surrounded
from three sides by the sea, like no
other country, except England or
Japan, with many ports on both
sides, is still not satisfied: she wants
to close all the outlets to the seas
10 all the nations on the eastern side
of the Adriatic, to keep them under
her economical and commercial
slavery; to control their resources
and their development.
on the rein of the italian govern
ment are many war lords. Their
blunders will be dearly paid for by
the poor Italian people.
The Jugo-Slavs will prefer death
to slavery.
Our only hope is the support of
the great democratic American
people and their noble President.
Our cry from the deep of our heart
is: Long life to America.
The Rev. A. Zuvich. Rector
! of St Mary's Croatian
Church. Steelton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
FOOL LEGISLATION

TT Is one thing to protect from con-
tamination streams from which
u water supplies for human con-
sumption are taken and quite an
other to enact legislation that would
bar fishing in practically every
stream in Pennsylvania. We have in
mind a Joker" that has been stuck
into one of the bills now before the
Legislature, which provides that
there shall be no hunting or fishing
within a half mile of any stream the
waters of which are used for drink
ing purposes.
That would close the Susquehanna
river from mouth to source, for
many towns, Harrisburg and Steel
ton, for example. take their water
from that river. So it is with prac-
tically every stream in the State.
If this bill is enacted into law as it
stands, the Fisheries Department
may as we'll go out of business and
every fishing rod in the State broken
to kindling wood, for there would
be no more fishing.
1t is this class of fool legislation
that makes for general dissatisfac-
ton and gives the man who is
chronically against the government"
ammunition for his soap-box argu-
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
PUNISH HIM

JUSTICE loving people every
where will rejoice that the former
- Kaiser is to be brought to trial.
The allied council has not done a
more commendable thing since it
convened.
OF course, it was anticipated that
some such course as has been out
lined would be devised. The world
expected the Peace Conference to
bring Wilhelm and his copartners in
crime before an international trl-
bunal and it would have been sorely
disappointed if these arch-criminals
had been permitted to escape.
The only surprising development
of the proceedings is that Secretary
Lansing should have opposed the
trial from the first. Certainly, he
acted without regard for public sem
timent in the United States. He must
have known that the people of this
country believe the eX-kaiser's am
bition for world power to have been
responsible for the war, and that all
the deviltry of the submarines and
poison gas; the ravaging; the wan
ton destruction of property and the
torture of women and children,
which were Germany's contribution
of shame to the conflict, were con-
doned by the then emperor, If not
actually devised. and executed under
his express orders. Believing this
Americans almost TO a man have
been and are insistent that Wilhelm
be brought before the bar of justice
to answer for his offenses as any
other criminal would be when
caught. We in this country are no
respecters of persons. We have the
same punishments for the high as
for the low, and Wilhelm is no eX-
ception.
Therefore, it comes as somewhat
of shock to find Mr.. Lansing
standing between the former war
lord and the grim hand of stern
Justice. 1t is well the other delegates
overruled him. The world will never
rest easy nor be content until Will
helm has paid the penalty of his
crimes.
incidentally, such an example
will have a steadying influence on
ambitious lordlings of the future
who may have hankerings toward
world dominion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Tragedy Of English Girl
From Soldiers. Sailors, Marines
Washington

[From Soldiers. Sailors, Marines,
Washington
English women and girls appear
repreSsed to an American, They
lack the ebullient and outspoken
frdnkness of the Yankee girl. But
once ii a while one of them speaks
Ter feelings freely and such a one
was the little munitions worker at
Ipswich. OF her escort, an American
sailor. she asked:
10 you thing many of the Ameri-
cans and Canadians will stay over
here?"
He thought they would not and
I'VE English girls wish that they
would" she said. and there was
something rather plaintive in the
way she spoke. You see, even be-
fore the war there were so many
more women than men in England
ana now there must be three women
TO every man.
We're just like other girls every
where; we want TO marry and to
have homes of our own. So many
of us never will, though. And not
20 marry means that nearly all OF
us will have to work for our living.
WeN worked gladly these last iour
years because we were doing it to
help win the war, but it will be
harder when peace comes. We will
have to compete with the men then
and -So-thirds of us will face the
unendinE future of work in shops or
offices or factories"
Sne spoke the tragedy OF the Eng
liaf girl, the brave hearted girl, who
for mCre than four years unfalter-
ingly has worked on the farms.
driven trucks and motor buses, made
guns, and shells and Gasses, acted
as polcewomen, hotel clerk and
call girl, nursed the sick and wound
ed and even built cantonments in
France. 1t is a tragedy for her, but
she will bear it with the same high
courage she bore the other countless
sacrifices the war has demanded of
her.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
OUR SAVING GRACE

A LOT of cures and preventives
n for Bolshevism have been sug-
gested in recent months, some
of them worthless, others good, but
it remained for Camp Hill
preacher in a sermon the other day
to note the only real and dependable
barrier that stands between this
country and the Red Terror-the
Church of Jesus Christ.
The myriad of little church spires
scattered over the land flaunt def
ance in the faces of the Goddess
hosts of Russia. America will retain
her liberties and her independence
just so long as she remains a Cod
fearing nation.
The best evidence of our stability
and progress as a people is that ev-
cry religious denomination is moving
forward with prodigious strides and
that all religious movements are
growing.
The true Christian can never be-
come Bolshevist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
NelD Bells to Ring in Peace

Westminster Abbey is to have a
new chime of bells to ring in the
peace. They are being cast in
Messrs. Mears and Steinbank's foun-
dry in the Whitechapel Road, where
London bells have been cast since
the sixteenth century-one of the
oldest in the line of London indus
tries.
The king and queen went down TO
Whitechape' a few DAYS ago to see
the casting of. one of the new Abbey
bells-the' third in the octave
weighing nine and a half hundred
pounds. A little bell was cast from
the same metal to be given to the
king and queen as a memento.
Some interesting historical bells
werc shown. Among these was the
hell of Staplehurst Parish Church.
which was cast in Whitechapel i'm
1894, and haS now heen sent tn tho
fi'''', fo~ rec" sting. three centuries
later Big Ben was born in this
foundry about half a century ago.
From the Manchester Guardian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
A WORTHY MEASURE

"HERE is in the Legislature a
bill providing that county
- school superintendents and their
assistants shall be allowed $500 Il
year for travelling expenses. This
sum will not meet the needs of such
hard -wroking, conscientious officials
as we have in Dauphin county, for
example, but it will be far better
than nothing. At present county SUI
pcrintendents are abominably paid,
poorly quartered. compelled in large
part to do their own clerical work,
and with all that are expected to
keep their schools up to high stand
ards and maintain uniformity Of
grade and study. Less devoted men
would become discouraged and quit.
They are deserving of more con-
sideration and their expense bill
ought to be passed without quib-
bling. If a county treasurership is
worth $1,000 a year, a county su-
perintendency is worth $4,000, but
most of them get not more than
$500, and many of them less.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
BATHING BEACHES

IF MAYOR KEISTER really means
to put before the people at the
= November elections a $4,000
loan for the establishment of mu-
nicipal bathing beaches, he will find
many to support the plan. If it is
not to be made a popular move
ment then the time to drop it is
now. before it gets so far under way
that withdrawal would have the
semblance of defeat.
Bathing beaches we should have
and bathing beachers we are going
10 have in due time, but the project
must not be allowed to become the
property of any one candidate or set
OF candidates. We should know soon
the extent of the active support that
the bathing beach loan is going to
have in official circles. We cannot
afford to run the chance of losing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
BUY LIBERTY BONDS

Pennsylvania, justly recognized as
it is as the Keystone of the Union,
with the proud distinction of being
foremost in responding to every ap-
peal or movement made for the sup
port of the National Government.
has again the opportunity to uphold
the reputation of being in the ad-
vance column of States whose quota
in the Victory Loan will be far over
the top. Pennsylvanians can not.
or will not. permit of it's being other
wise, the history of the activities
throughout the State during the war
being such that at this time, to re-
fuse or neglect in responding RI to the
call with that liberality for which
the State is noted throughout the
whole world. would be a disgrace
and stigma on the Americanism of
PennsylVanians.
Let us go to it with might and
main, heart and souli-Howard E.
Butz, State Fire Marshal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Defends UndertakerS
o the Editor Of the Telegraph:

10 tht EdttOF Oy We IeIegrGpH:
Some time ago our country, as
we'll as other countries, suffered Il
great loss of life due to an almost
overwhelming epidemic. This gave
rise to an unfair dig at a profession
second only to one. Some people,
through lack of understanding and
viewing the situation with a partial
eye, called it the "Undertakers'
Harvest" But let us consider this
matter fairly and give this profess
sion, and the followers of the same,
the place and standing they rightly
deserve
The public we'll knows and will
long remember the advance in the
cost of everything necessary to a
livelihood. Some articles of food and
wearing apparel advanced as high
as one and two hundred per cent
on pre-war prices. Consider with
this also labor and the cost of pro-
duction of nearly everything and
then judge whether the undertakes
made a harvest"
Lumber, labor, silk, hardware and
living expenses advanced on the
undertaken to the extent mentioned
above. Include likewise his over
hedu eApenSeS ana small lnCldentalS
not mentioned which have also ad-
Vanced in like measure and then ask
YOURSELF: Did the undertaken take
advantage when his account figured
to an advance of some twenty-five
per cent higher than n few years
ago?
Let us look at the situation from
another angle. Several newspaper
articles mentioned the startling fact
that whole families were smitten by
the disease and We're for the most
part bedfast and could get no one
to come near to render assistance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
FIUNIE

= CST how seriously the Italians
Il and the Jugo-Slavs take the
Fiume situation is illustrated by
communications and resolutions, set
ting forth both sides OF the contro-
versy, published elsewhere in to-
days issue of the Telegraph. The
Italians urged that Fiume is to them
what Alsace-Lorraine is to the
French; that a majority of it's in
habitants are Italians and that these
are entitled to live under the Italian
flag, this hope of independence from
Austria being given as one of the
main reasons why Italy went into
the war. Jugo-Slavs urge that the
possession of Fiume is vital to their
economic independence, that it is
their one gateway to the sea and
that Italy wants Fiume in order to
restrain and control the exports and
imports of Jugo-Slavia.
There is reason in this latter argu-
ment. If Italy gets Fiume she will
be at war with the Jugo-Slavs within
ten years. Some way must be found
whereby these people can have un-
restricted access to the Adriatic. and
if they do not get an outlet peace
ably it is to be expected they will
fight for it with all the energy and
persistence that has marked them
for thousand years as we'll able to
take care of themselves against the
best soldiers of Europe. If Italy
knows when she is we'll off she will
grant these Jugo-Slavs a way to the
Gea, whether through Fiume or else
where, which is all they ask.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-EX- Representative c. V. John
son, of Crawford county, has been
here the last few days in regard to
legislation and is much interested
in the road problems.
Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran-
ton, came to Harrisburg yesterday
to visit the Legislature.
John A. McSparran, master of
the State Grange, has been here the
last few days on legislation and says
that reports indicate big production
of grain in Pennsylvania.
Mayor NJ. B. Kits, of Erie, who
has been here for a couple of days,
is greatly interested in the plans to
make Harrisburg a model for the
rest of the State in regard to legis-
lation.
-Ex- Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of
Reading, is urging funds to be voted
by the Legislature to complete the
Gregg statue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Leads in Road Improvement
tWilkes-B Barre Recordl


No other State in the Union has
as elaborate plans for road inn
provement as Pennsylvania. APP
proval by the Governor of the bill
authorizing the issuing of bonds on
the strength of the $50.000,000 loan
was mere formality, but it marks
the beginning of an enterprise that
places upon the Sproul government
very serious responsibility. In
authorizing an Indebtedness of that
size in Il State that was free from
debt the citizens did so in the ex-
pectation that the money would be
expended in way to give satisfac-
tory return. 1t is fortunate that the
work is to he done under the watch
full eye of a Governor who has the
confidence of the people, and it is to
be hoped that the State Highway
, Department will be equally anxious
to avoid the dishonesty and the in
competency that have made similar
projects in other States Il farce and
a failure.
In addition to as much as the pro-
ceeds of the loan as can be used
this year, probably $2O,00O,O00, the
department will have available the
appropriation by the Legislature out
of current income, amounting to
probably $S,000,000 for the year,
and in addition it will have Pennsyl-
vania's share of a Federal appro-
priation. This allotment will be
$911,407.
With this large sum of money or
hand, PENNSYLVANIA can plunge into
road making on scale never be-
fore equaled But that will not be
the full extent of the work. a num-
Der of the counties have made and
are making independent appropria-
tions. 1t is proposed to spend $3.50
| 600 in Luzerne out of the county
| treasury for the repair of old high
ways and for the improvement ol
| others.
The whole plan of operations will
be of stupendous proportions. Not
much has been said about detailed
methods, and there may be some ap.
| prehension on that score. In the
past, road improvement has not beef
| of a kind to stand up under the
! strain of heavy automobile traffic
with the result that in few year!
| the cost of repairs has equaled the
| original cost of construction. Under
such conditions road making is {
| luxury that no State or county coulC
afford. The Legislature will be eX.
! pected to regulate the weight oi
| loads and the speed of motor Vehi.
cles, and the Highway Department
must be depended upon to bull,
with a view to permanency rather
| than with the purpose of making
the money reach over as many mile!
of highway as possible. The people
who voted the money will eXpec
businesslike results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
A BUGABOO NO MORE

n UT Greensburg way Judge Sny-
der is being opposed for re-
election by the wet" element.
There was time when that may
have meant something, but we guess
the Judge isn't lying awake nights
worrying over what the saloon
keepers arc going to do to him in
the next campaign.
Tho only people in the country
who do not realize that the liquor
crowd in politics is as harmless as
an aged bulldog without teeth are
the liquor mon themselves. Every
body else knows they are down and
out for all time.
The liquor. crowd never spent
money in politics for lreyengo, unless
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
PATRIOTIC PALM

The dead are dead, yet we are all
here living;
To-day our country asks not for the
giving
OF all that we possess, as they,
But simply that we help to pay
Our debt to them in lending way.
No argument is needed to ensure
That which you lend; 1t is secure,
For all our glorious country is be-
hind 1T.
Now and forever more; these bonds
do bind it.
Hence lend again and once moro
win the prize,
The patriotic palm; be dutiful, be
safe be wisea 81 n
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

senator Penrose has watched with
an appreciation more keen than some
of our home folks the development of
Han risburg from an overgrown town
TO a progressive and metropolitan city.
Furthermore, he never fails to say a
Kind word of encouragement in his
visits to Harrisburg. He realizes the
Importance to the Commonwealth of
a substantial working out of the
plans OF Governor Sproul for a CO.
ordination of the improvement pro-
iccts of the State and the city. 1t is
fortunate, also. that the Legislature is
composed of men of vision in respect
To great public undertakings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Jdpdn'S Telephone SerDice

The Japan Times satirizes the bad
telephone service of Japan by telling
this incident: "A lady in Karuiwaza
called up her house in Tokyo. left by
the next train. got the call and
talked to herself in Kariuwaza six
hours after she arrived in Tokyo.
That's not a joke. It's the solemn
truth. From the Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

there was dollar to be made incl
dentally. and it has less incentive to
Indeed, its funds are at low ebb and
it needs them for other purposes.
The perennial fountain of booze is
about to go dry"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

1t will be interesting for the return
ing soldiers to hear when they get
back to the old home town that the
''Hardscrabble" sector has finally been
taken by the city and that an un-
rivaled river front is to be still
further improved. Nothing is too
good for the boys who are coming
back frcm over there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

Other cities and towns are plant
ing memorial trees for their soldiers
living and dead-but any sugges-
tion as to the planting of a tree in
Harrisburg seems to fall upon deaf
ears There is hope. however, in the
fact that the Boy Scouts are becom-
ing interested in this important civic
duty. BY the way. have you planted
a tree this spring?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
Behold My SOrrOW

The Lord is righteous; for have
rebelled his commandment: hear
pray you. all people. and behold my
sorrow ow-Lamentations i, 1S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

these proposed beaches by the injec-
tion of either personal or party
politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg's permanent
memorial to its men In the war
seems to have been lost sight of?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Men who volunteered for Indian
wars used to camp on the river be-
low Mulberry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 80. 1919

Teach me Thy icdy. Jehoudh; aud
lead me in plain path, because Of
mine ercmies-PS. 27:l1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30

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