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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
HOU FOch Redeemed His V0D
By BRIGGS

In January, 1871, was signed the
shameful peace that marked the tri-
umph of Prussia. Twilight was fall
ing upon the somber study-hall
where all the hearts were somber
also. Around Metz the voice of the
cannon began to thunder forth the
triumph of Germany. The ground
trembled, the windows shook. No
one dared say word. Then a Jesuit
father, who had been a naval officer,
said, slowly, scanning his words:
My children, pray God for the
future of France. Alsace and Lor-
raine are no longer ours"
I'VE prayed" said the marshal; !;
mo, we did more than that. We
made our vows. And now that we
are at the evening of our life, our
prayers are heard and our vows are
fulfilled"
and went out of their way to be in
solent. They allowed, however, the
future polytechniciens to finish their
studies. But the troops, multiply
ing demands and stipulation, occu-
pied a part of the college. The
students had to meet continually in
the corridors and on the playground
and at the door the German SOL
diers, who bullied them and made
them submit to humiliations without
number. Foch was beside himself
with rage. He passed his examina-
ton successfully at Nancy to the
sound of the German bands that
General Manteuffel, with his habi-
tual lack of tact, ordered to play.
Foch never forgot these musical
notes which rent his ear and his
soul. Forty-two years later, when
he was named commander of the
superb Twentieth Corps of Lor-
raine, he ordered for the day of
his entry at Nancy, August 23, 1918,
great parade in which participated
the bands of the Sixth Regiment of
| the city. 1t was an unforgetable
night, for it marked his entry into
service when the hour came to wipe
the post that found him ready for
out the blot of 1871.
L have dwelt on these facts be-
cause they form an important detail
of which no biographer of Foch
has spoken. During the occupation
he studied the German soul, which
he knows intimately. The depths of
its baseness, he says, we must keep
constantly in mind. He was in one
of the great cities of France when
that city was annexed to Germany.
1t was on that day, at the College
Saint-Clement, that the thought of
a life-task was engraved upon his
heart. From that moment he swore
to concentrate all the efforts of his
life toward a single end-the lust
! revenge. 1t was at the time of his
first contact with the enemy that
the impressionable youth, smarting
! under the humiliation of his coun-
try, said to himself:
I'VE must retake Alsace and Lor-
raine. France must not remain a
conquered nation. I must be the
! iberator."-Baron Andre de Mari
! court in Harper's Magazine for Oc-
tober.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
CITY BOATHOUSE

TTYITH the removal of the Hard
wv scrabble" buildings and the
conversion of the strip along
the river between Herr and Calder
streets into a park the question of
a municipal boat house will have to
be determined. One of the most
practical suggestions provides fol
the placing of a concrete boat
house on a level with the extension
OF the river steps and extending
back into the terrace, the whole to
be covered over and hidden from
view by the parking and shrubbery.
Bulkhead doors, opening on the
granolithic walk, would make such
a boat house available and provide
boating facilities in the very heart
of the city.
This and other matters will prob
ably be taken up Immediately on
the final settlement of the Hard
scrabble" appeals by the court. II
is expected that a decision will be
handed down not later than next
month and the long deferred perma-
nent treatment of that particular
section of the River Front can then
proceed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
ARE YOU DOING IT?

A RBOR DAY is coming on
- apace and it will be necessary
for every citizen who pro-
poses to give expression to his in
terest in the shade tree situation by
planting one or more trees to i'm
mediately get into touch with a re-
liable nursery with a view to plant
ing the right kind in the proper
places before the end of October,
preferably on Arbor Day.
Look over your sidewalk space
and see, after consulting with the
City Forester, whether you cannot
plant to advantage a fine tree or
two in this campaign. Under the
supervision of the Department OF
Parks, a surveyor the whole city
has been made and the City Fores-
ter will be glad to assist in making
the tree planting program this year
q great success.
OF course, every tree which Com
missioner Gross can find place for
will be removed from the nursery
at Island Park and started on its
wider life of usefulness in the city's
parks or elsewhere. But 1t must
not be left to the park authorities
to do what the individual property
owner himself or herself should un.
dertake. Harrisburg should be made
a more attractive city through ar
increase of its shade tree area. There
pare many treeless streets and un.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
THE GOVERNORS VISION

X ovERNoR SPRoUL has a wide
" vision of the greatness of
Pennsylvania and it's relation
to the welfare and prosperity of the
United States. He misses no oppor-
tunity to magnify in a proper way
the splendid resources of the Com
monwealth and he at the same time
gives utterance to the most sane
Views regarding the relationship of
the alien citizen to our institutions
and the promotion of our American
ideals. He intimates very clearly
and forcefully that the alien who
comes here without any apprecia-
ton of our liberty and the oppor-
tunittes presented and who INDUCES
in propaganda contrary to these in
.stitutions should find room else
where.
Americanization efforts cannot
possibly be successful so long as
those of foreign birth refuse to be-
como part of our citizenry and give
of their best cooperation in the de-
velopment of the country's pros
parity and resources.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Who Shall Make Our Budgets?

The Prodigal Son was a liberal
spender and the fatted calf was
killed to make a feast when he re-
turned to his fathers house, but
he was not put in charge of the
family purse. That. was left in con-
troll of the elder son, who continued
to work in the field and create in
come. Modern civilization has fol-
lowed that rule in family and in
government budgets, because in
come is the first item in every budg-
ct and the one item which we can
not do without. We cannot be
spenders until we have become pro-
ducers. My wife and 1 tried budget
making when we began housekeep-
ing, regulating family expenditures
by my small income. She spent the
money, but 1 had to first get the
money to be spent We got along
fairly well, but made one mistake.
We raised a pig to increase our as
sets, but took so. much interest in
that pig. feeding 1t, scratching its
back to hear it grunt its satisfaction,
and conversing with it, until by the
time it was grown big and fat
could not turn it into our winters 8
meat. That pig became a liability
instead of an asset. There are a lot
OL pcOpl0 WIN Llic IIlio-
take in government budgets and for
get the real purpose in raising a pig.
They become so much absorbed in
their ambitions and efforts that they
forget the purpose behind their ef-
forts; and the liabilities they Gre
ate are the liabilities of the people
who pay the taxes. 1t is not sur
prising that the people sometimes
get an idea that a government pig Is
not very different from the golden
calf which the Children of Israel
worshiped, instead Of a source of
food-supply.
The Federal government was not
established as a money-making en-
| terprise, but the expenditures must
; be regulated by the income, and
! the income comes out of the pockets
of the people in the form of taxes.
The only part of the Federal gov
ernment that has the power to tax
the people is Congress. and all rev.
enue bills must originate in the
House of representatives. The
makers of the Constitution were
somewhat explicit about that and
insisted that Congress should con-
troll the national purse or national
| budget, which covers both taxation
and expenditure. Franklin thought
that the purse should be controlled
| by the House because the Represen-
| tatives were to be elected by direct
vote of the people and for short
! terms; but Madison suggested that
: the power of amendment should be
| given to the Senate so that 1t might
/ diminish" an extravagant budget by
the House. Senator Smoot recently
said in debate that once during his
eighteen years service the Senate
| had reduced an appropriation passed
by the House and only once.-Hon.
Joseph G. Cannon in Harper's Mag
azine for October.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Food Profiteering in Germany

"You see that farm over there -
asked n food-convasser with whom
/ walked an hour or more one Sun
day. II stopped there and tried TO
buy butter. We haven't an ou nee
of butter to our Names said the
woman. All said I, just to see il
I could not catch her in a lie, but
I pay as high as twenty marks a
pound IN that case said the
Unverschamte. I can let you have
any amount you want. up to thirty
pounds I could not really pay that
price. of course. being n poor man,
working hard for nine marks a day.
Ert when l told her I would report
her TO the police. she laughed in
my face and slammed the door,"
II was easy to understand nov
why so many of those l had inter-
viewed In my official capacity ut
Z obienz had expressed the opinion
thar sooner or later the poor OF the
cities would descend upon the
peasants in bands and robs them of
their hoardings. The countrymcn
themselves showed that fear of this
new and then gnawed at their souls,
net so much by their speech as by
t!,eir circumspect actions.-Harry A.
/ l'ranck in Harpcr's Magazine for
October.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
THE STATE POLICE

WYE SHALL want more proof
wv than the mere 'say-so" of
unfriendly individuals before
we shall believe that the State Police
have been guilty of beating up
women and children and m!streat-
ing men. Anybody who knows the
State Police knows they are not that
kind of men.
It must not be forgotten that the
officers were thrown into the midst
of unruly mobs of foreigners in
western Pennsylvania, that they were
few and the rioters were many. and
that they had to act quickly and
vigorously. When bullets are flying
about a policeman's head it is only
natural that he reply in kind. In
deed, it is all he can do or admit
defeat. And those who are associat-
ing themselves with mobs are not
innocent bystanders.'
If women or children have been
hurt in the strike disturbances it is
too bad, but it must be remembered
that they should have been at homo
at time like that.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
A PROPER MOVE

T HE Rotary Club plan for a
Joint meeting of the various
civic organizations of the city
to hear Warren H. Manning, the en-
cheering expert, discuss the munich
pal loans to be passed upon in No.
vember. is a proper move. We have
heard all too little of these loans,
their purposes and benefits. Beyond
question all of them should be pass
ed. Those who have made a study
OF the proposals pronounce them alb
soiuteiy necessary to the progress
of the city along the lines that have
made this an up-to-date town.
The Rotary Club has undertaken
to educate the community as to Just
what these Improvements mean. 1t
is to be hoped the meeting will be
largely attended.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Where?

Where, oh. where, has he gone to,
pray?
We miss, and have missed him
long,
The landlord fat, who used to whang
on the resonant hotel gong.
And, ah, the tune he played each
noon, with loud, inviting din,
To warn the boarders dinner was
served and bid them welcome
in.
Twas rude and crude, no doubt his
tune, but, oh, how sweet its
greet;
For that portly host with his roaring
gong announced such things
to eat
AS chicken fry and fat mince pie
and eggs ct seems a dreamy
And frosted cake eight inches high,
and coffee with golden cream.
When / pass DER to the other shore,
to burble my sanctified song,
1 know 1 shall carp if he's there
with n harp instead of that
resonant gong.
-Tennyson J. Daft.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
BUSINESS CLASSES

4" HE business classes at the
Harrisburg Y. NJ. C. A. are to
= be largely attended, Secretary
Robert Reeves announces, which is
a good indication. Particularly is
he interested in the large number
of former soldiers who have applied
for admission. indicating to his mind
that many men who wore the uni
form have come home determined
to get on in life and willing to make
sacrifices 20 that end.
The salesmanship course, with
Walter Spahr. salesmanager of the
Elliott-Fisher Company, at its head
is particularly attractive. in view OF
the practical nature of the work
proposed. Experts of national repu-
tation will address the men and the
instruction will be far in advance oil
the small sum required for tuition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Silk Shirts

[From the Wall Street Journal
A New York silk buyer contracted
for silk shirts at $40 a dozen by
the thousand dozen. When ready
for delivery the manufacturer Of
,fered the buyer $50 dozen to sell
them back to him. Satisfied with
the profit he made, the buyer was
surprised when the manufacturer
telephoned a dry goods seller in
Lawrence, Mass, and sold the lot to
him at $40 dozen, by the thousand
dozen.
When the transaction was COM
,pleted the mill owner informed the
New York buyer that the man in
Lawrence could sell the product at
$50 az dozen, SO great was the de-
mand for luxuries in the factory and
mill districts, where frugality is be-
ing looked upon as an oddity instead
'of virtue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harry T. Stoddart, new member
of the Philadelphia Board of Edu-
cation, is 43, and the baby member.
james Ryan, of Danville, who
won county commissioner nomina-
ton in Montour county on a tie, is
well known here.
Col. Joseph H. Thompson, who
commanded the 10th Infantry and
is a former Senator, was Harris
burg visitor.
Senator A. F. Daix, of Phila-
delphia. has just celebrated his
fifty-third birthday.
Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, was among the Governors
visitors at the weekend.
Charles L. Taylor, who was
made a doctor of engineering at
Lehigh's Founders Day, is a Pitts
burgh business man.
j. Borton Weeks, active in the
election crusade in Delaware county.
is law partner of Attorney General
William I. Schaffer.
Clarence Dolan, prominent Phil
adelphian, is at White Sulphur.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Educational Congress
[From Pennsylvania Farmerl

From Pennsylvania FarmerI
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Thomas e. Finegan is plan
ming for an educational congress to
be held in Harrisburg the week of
November 10. Leading educators
from all parts of the country will
be present to confer and advise in
the many problems of modern edu-
cation. The opinion is general
among educators as well as with
the public in general that there
should be an adjustment of the
work of the schools to meet the new
conditions growing out of the war.
No place is the need of revision
greater than in the system of rural
education and it is to be hoped that
Congress will be able to formu-
late a plan in which the essential
differences between city and country
needs is recognized and provided
for. Not only are the questions of
curriculum, grading and buildings
important, but the problem of rails
ing sufficient money to run the rural
schools as they should be Is a most
pressing one-one that the Legisla-
ture has SO far failed to solve.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

Out North Dakota way another
visionary scheme for aiding the prole-
tariat has fiuked and in the fuking
caused a Fargo bank to be declared
insolvent. The banks association
with the National Nonpartisan League,
for which Il has acted In q financial
capacity for two years, is largely re-
sponsible for the smash. when VIII
farmers and workingmen and the
people generally learn that there are
certain immutable principles which
cannot be nouted in vain. effort TO
overturn the fxed order and estao-
llish an arcadian era?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Thinks in Big Figures
TFrom Punch, London1

Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri,
who told the United States Senate
foreign relations committee that 1
million Egyptian soldiers fought un-
der the British flag, is only about
/ million out. We gather that
million isn't much of anything in
Missouri.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

less attention Is given to these un-
slightly stretches. the generation
which is to come will have little
reason to remember with respect
or appreciation those of us who
have been indifferent or careless in
the performance OF a civic duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

The Middle West town that served
baked beans on its Welcome Home"
menu is of the same type as the
mother who wanted to make her SOL
der son feel at home by giving him
for his first meal at home a plate Of
c0<ned beef.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

Fashion journals say American
women Will wear fewer clothes next
Summer. which gives rise to the
thought that, such being the case,
America will be no place for a re-
spectacle married man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Accessibility

IFrom the Philadelphia Press.]
Perhaps the farmers, the Anti
Saloon League and the labor unions
will have to toss up to determine
which OF them is going to run the
Government
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Still Winding
TFrom Punch, Bondonl

[From Punch, Bondon1
A government department hos
been discovered which is still wind
ing up the affairs of the Great EX-
hibition of 1851. One of the junior
officials admits that he NAV have
heard the Great War whizz by.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
AHitudinOus
nm the Washington starl

I'VE have never known time,
when the cost of living was so high"
NO" replied the man who re-
fuses to be cherries; 'Eor a time
when wages were so high that most
people could keep up with the cost"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

Prepare to plant a tree either on
your sidewalk or on your premises
but first find out the best kind of tree
TO plant and the proper size from one
who knows. Call up the Department
of Parks or the State Forestry Com
missioner at the Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
Psestsca t.
Ps'.n4fsaaia
By the Ex-Committeeman

omcial forms of the ballot to be
used for the November election in
fennsylvania are being prepared at
, the bureau of elections in the de-
partment of the Secretary OF the
commonwealth and will specify the
manner In which party squares, the
nrst column" shall appear on the
ballot; the position and form OF the
nonpartisan column and the spaces
Ior county and municipal elections.
owing to the delay in completing
the count in two or three counties
the state bureau will be unable to
certify the nominees for judicial Of
hces thirty days before the general
election. The general election falls
on November I.
The official ballot will show the
Republican. Democratic, Socialist
and Prohibition party squares.
which will be enlarged by such
parties as may pre-empt names for
local elections this year. The su-
perior court election, for which
Judge William II. Keller is the only
candidate, heads the nonpartisau
column, spaces for judges of other
courts fol owing. The nonpartisan
column is surrounded by q heavy
black border. The other columns
oAN NV 81 SneTlII
heads the county lists.
For the first time there appears
in the directions as to marking the
Following: For an office where
more than one candidate is to be
elected the voter. after marking in
the party square. may divide his
vote by marking a cross (x) to the
right OF each candidate for whom
he desires to vote. For such Office
votes shall not he counted for can
didates not individually marked"
Notice is also given that a cross
in a party square does not carry
vote for any judge. To vote for
judicial candidates names of candi-
dates must be marked, says the no.
tice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

Members Of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
or all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
hshed herein,
An rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1919

We mag build more splendid hdb-
itot;ons, JdH oar rooms ,oith paint
tn1s and tcfth sculptures, but trc
cannot bug tcith gold the old 1850
tS0ttons.-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

Harrisburg has been delighted to
have as its guests this week the men
who demonstrated to the world that
this country is not too proud to fight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06
DO YOU KNOW

Harrisburg steel was used in
ships built at Hog Island?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The Bolton House corner has
been a hotel for more than so years.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-05-06
A FAMILY
MEDICINE
In Her Mo;hag's Home, Says Tn,
Georgia Lady, Regarding Black
Draught. Reiei From Head
ache, ElalaEia, Chilia, Etc.

Ringgold, Ca Mrs. Chas. CASTOR,
OF this place, writes: 81 am a user
OF Thedfords Blaek-Draught; in fact
1t was one Of our family medicines.
Also in my mothers home, when |
was a child. When any Of us child
rem complained of headache, usually
caused by constipation, she gave us
dose OF Biack'Draught, which would
rectify the trouble. Often in the
Spring, we would have malaria and
chills, or troubles of this kind, wo
would take Dlack-Draught pretty reg
ular until the liver acted well, and
we would soon be up and around
again. We would not be without II,
for 1t certainly has saved US lots Of
doctor bills. Just a dose of Black
Draught when not SO we'll saves a
lot of days in bed"
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
in use for many years in the treat
ment Of stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, and the popularity which It
now enjoys Is proof OF its merit.
II your liver is not doing its duty.
you will suffer from such disagree
able symptoms as headache, bilious
ness, constipation, Indigestion, etc.
and unless something is0done. serious
trouble may result.
Thedford's Black-Draught has beer
found valuable remedy for thess
troubles. II Is purely vegetable, and
acts In a prompt and natural way
regulating the liver 10 its proper
functions and cleansing the bowels Of
impurities. Try II. Insist on Thed-
forc's the orieinal aud genuine. p 70
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-05-06

NEIEARLY twenty years have been
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principle of design.
AS a result, the Buick motor to-
day is remarkable for three charac7
teristics which, to our mind, inter-
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list is. seeking. These three virtues
are-Power-Long Life-Economy.
{ Buick motors have always been
noted for their Power, on the road
as well as on the testing block.