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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
"OUELLE CROIX?"

l said that the Russian women
were all meek in appearance. There
was one exception. A woman of
sharp, eager face, as a zealot, with
a gray shawl over her head, seeing
me standing near the door, ap-
preached me and said in rather
sharp voice, speaking in French,
"Quelle Croix?" What cross? l did
not at first understand the import
of her inquiry, though l realized
that she was putting to me an all
important question. "Quelle Croix?"
"Grecque ou Latine?" (What cross
do you make, that of the Greek
Church or of the Latin Church? that
is, from left to right or from right to
left?) My answer was La Croix
Rouge" the Red Cross. And that is
the answer which the Croix Rouge,
the Red Cross, is to make to people
of every race and sect. 1t is the sign
of mercy universal, the sign not of
Christian faith, but of human broth
erhood. America has given the Red
Cross it's widest scope of meaning
and illustration. And here in Pales-
tine, of all lands in the world, where
religious paISisanship is most bitter,
where the worlds aims have been
asked for the sake of Christ, Mo-
l1ammed and Abraham-here above
all places is the Red Cross needed to
help unite all and to illustrate the
best methods of this universal
mercy.-From The Red Cross in Pal
estine, by John Finley in Asia Mag
aZine for January.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
VIRGINIA

The carrying away by the Ger
mans of 1900 young girls from
Lille, 5000 of them between the
ages of 13 and II, has inspired the
following verses, credited to Mary
in the New York Evening Sun:
Virginia, Virginia, l see you every
where;
Your step is light along the street,
your laugh is on the air,
A fragrance floats around you, a
bright and gentle grace;
In you there moves embodied the
music of the race.
Virginia, Virginia, my heart is
turned to dust,
Conjecturing your agony, alone with
Hate and Lust;
Too delicate and innocent for touch
of common men,
Compelled to be the slave of brutes
and kennel in their den!
Virginia. Virginia, the time can nev-
er be
When l will take their hands in
mine and speak forgivingly!
Though famine, sword and pestilence
devour them, root and stem
For all their craven whimpering
will not pity them!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

and townships. Counties, cities and
chool districts cannot be divided in
to more than seven classes and bor-
oughs into more than five. There
are now three classes of cities, the
Supreme Court having years ago
refused to approve any more. There
are no classiflcations of counties and
four classes of school, districts exist.
Classification of boroughs, which
range in Pennsylvania from $4,000
to $50 population, has long been
sought in this state.
Briefly stated the acts of assem-
bly, to be asked will amend various
features of the third class city code
of 1913.
They include right to provide by
ordinance for:
Pension of city employees serving
twenty years or more and reach
ing the age of 20.
Municipal garbage collection.
Optional civil service instead OF
mandatory in certain lines.
Suits against cities to be started
within ninety days.
Relief from the four mill tax on
municipal bonds (boroughs includ-
ed), which may be issued for COM
pulsory public improvements, such
as streets, sewers, bridges. etc.
Return of q share of automobile
licenses to cities where originating,
the funds to be used for street main
tenance.
Local taxation of public utilities
for fire and police purposes.
Authority to issue serial bonds
payable in one year instead of five
Authorizing Public Service Com
mission to suspend rates when COM
plant is made.
1t is probable that the borough
league will have a program of its
own, but in some instances it will
cooperate with the third class city
people. 1t is also the plan of the
municipal authorities. in event thai
constitutional commission is au-
thorized, to ask representation fol
the smaller cities and boroughs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
Degeneration of a Noble Race
IFrom the New York Times1

lfrom the New YORK Timesl
Defeat has brought to Germany
what her cultural leaders used to
tell her people would be the ultimate
and deepest infamy. a process or
Americapization. In CoblenZ the
other day German girls were dis
covered polishing the boots of Amer
lean soldiers. and in many an hon
est Rhenish household there were
groans of anguish at this degrading
enslavement of German womanhood.
For German officers, in the days be-
fore the war, to push women out OF
the way as they passed by, for the
German paterfamilias to walk before
the wife who carries the bundles
these things were right and proper,
part OF time-honored German cul-
ture. But for German girls to polish
the boots of the invader-thiS was
outrage inconceivable.
However, 1t was soon discovered
that thrifty citizen of Coblenz had
| discovered the American liking for
| resplendent footwear, and had open
ed up his own shoe-shining parlor
with girl help, (perhaps because he
could get them at a lower wage,)
so 1t was not American tyranny at
all, but German business. Another
imitation of American custom must,
of course. have been the highland
ed measures adopted to abolish Lieb-
knecht and Luxembourg. One of the
German comic weeklies only last
August got out what might have
been called a special lynching num-
ber, in which practically all the
space was devoted to this American
pastime. A full-page illustration
q fnld m
street, with skyscrapers towering all
about, and harsh-faced persons in
cowboy costume in the act of lynch
ing a mild-mannered German, while
silk-hatted plutocrats and ladies of
fashion crowded in to applaud. 1t
was notorious in Germany at that
time that hundreds, IL not thousands,
of Germans had been so treated,
and the prevalence of lynch law was
deemed the worst of the innumer-
able abominable traits which Ger
man observers found in the Ameri-
can character. If, then, the Ger
mans adopt lynching themselves, it
can only be in the pathetic effort to
win our friendship and in the firm
conviction that less strenuous meas
ures than imitation are of no avail.
One of these weaker measures is
chronicled In dispatches from the
zone of occupation-the issuance OF
souvenir watchfobs on which the
Stars and Stripes encircle the Iron
Cross. This pretty memento does not
seem to be having much of sale.
No wonder the Germans are driven
to extreme and distasteful methods
in order to win our esteem. They
have blown up our factories, sunk
our ships, drowned our women and
children, bombed our hospitals, tried
to stir rebellion among our people,
lied to our government, reviled ev-
cry trait of our character, tried to
partition our territory, and finally
distributed ornaments on which our
most sacred emblem is united with
theirs; and still we do not love them.
If, after all this, they are driven to
swallow their feelings and pretend
that they like American customs,
their motive for trying to win our
favor must be an urgent one in
deed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
MANY CHANGES IN CITYLAWS
TO COME BEFORE LEGISLATURE

TWO constitutional amendments
and nine or ten bills to change
provisions of the Clark third
class city code have been prepared
py the legislative committee of the
League of Third Glass Cities for
submission to the Legislature. Some
Oh these bills will appear early in
the coming week and they are back
ed by the legislative committee
headed by ex-Mayor Ira w. Stratton,
OF Reading, and the committee of
city solicitors of which James A
Gardner. of New Castle, is chair
man. The Pennsylvania League Of
Boroughs will also cooperate with
the third class city advocates of leg
islation and will ask hearings early
in the session on their bills.
First and foremost will be the
so-called home rule" amendment to
the constitution which will seek to
these words, among others "cities or
cities of any particular class, may
be given the right and power to
frame and adopt their own charters
and to exercise the powers and au-
hority of local self-government
subject, however, to such restric-
tions, limitations and regulations as
may be imposed by the Legislature y
There is a further provision that
laws affecting the government of
cities and boroughs shall become eff
fective only when submitted to the
electors thereof and approved by a
majority of those voting thereon.
Mr.. Stratton who was here look
ing after matters in connection with
the Legislation that he felt that this
aroendment would do away with
much of the complaints which have
been heard from time to time. Bills
having this object have appeared
from time to time. In the event that
a constitutional commission is pro-
vided for this matter will be brought
to the attention of it's members.
The other amendment gives the
Legislature power to classify coun-
ties, cities boroughs, school districts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
REAL GOVERNOR AT LAST

| (From the Philadelphia Inquirer. }
Pennsylvania has a real Governor
at last. For four years the state
has been puzzled by the queer mix
ture of craftsmanship, near-states-
| manship and much that was far re-
moved from craftsmanship of any
kind or quality whatever that has
controlled the administration at
Harrisburg. 1t would not be true
to say that Governor Brum baugh
was a dismal failure. Neither would
it be true to say that he was a sue
cess. He did some things well. Not
many, but some. Nevertheless, the
state will turn with relief from him
to Governor Sproul.
For Brumbaugh was a distinct
disappointment. It was a mistake,
of course, to expect genuinely sat
isfactory service from one whose
training had been the schools. A
man may be good school teacher,
which Doctor Brumbaugh unques-
tionably was, but man whose pro-
fession is to instruct the young
may not have the qualifications de-
sirable in the executive of a great
state. Governor Brumbaugh lacked
those qualifications. 1t was not
! astonishing, therefore, that he
should become the victim of intrig-
uing politicians. His career at Har-
risburg was of political nature
of a partisan nature, rather. He
called around him men whose chief
objects were to build up q partisan
machine. OF course, the state suf-
fered as a result. Doctor Brum-
baugh was not the Governor of the
commonwealth so much as he was
the tool of cunning political mas
ters.
Pennsylvania is. facing the seri-
Gus problem of finding itself after
the upheavals which the war has
produced. The situation is such
that il cannot be met by a theorist
| in the grip of designing politicians.
There is needed a man in the ex-
ecutive chair who is thoroughly
conversant with all the great ques-
tions which affect the state, a man
who knows what to do and how to
do it and who cannot be dominated
by partisan motives.
The Inquirer was the first journal
to advocate the nomination of Sem
ator Sproul for the Governorship.
Thoroughly believing that he was
the one man throughout the COM
monwealth best fitted for the high
position, it entered heartily into the
campaign for him. Today, with the
first few days of his administration
now a matter of record, it is con-
vinced that 1t made no error of
judgment. His appointments have
been high class. His inaugural ad-
dress breathed a spirit of sincerity
and desire to serve, not politicians
not partisanship, but the people as
a whole.
He has begun well and the out
look is for an administration of ex-
ceeding force, capability and effici-
ency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
THE AMERICAN WAY
(From the Philadelphia Ledger


To European trade unionists and
labor leaders accustomed to turning
all labor movements into actual po-
litical parties, forming irreconcilable
blocks or groups in the national leg
islatures, the objection on the part
of Mr.. Gompers to that way of do
Ing things seems inexplicable. But
Mr.. Gompers, in deciding that the
American Federation delegates shall
not attend the political labor confer
ence arranged for at Berne, Switzer-
land, at which all sorts of labor and
socialistic party groups represent
ing the leading countries will be
present, is acting according to strict
trade union and sound American
principles.
Just as the early separation of
Church and State here has made 1t
una merican as well as impolitic for
church communions to form actual
political groups, as they do all over
Europe, so the national labor lead
ers representing unionism here have
wisely refrained from setting up def
| mite and open labor parties in the
various State Legislatures and in
| Congress. The American theory is
that all citizens are entitled to the
service of the representatives of all
| parties and that special interests do
not require actual party organiza-
tions to get redress or gain certain
| ends. The churches, for instance
can ask proper legislation from any
party In the majority; can use the
minority as their spokesman, too
and this is true of the labor move
ment.
The amazing success of the prohi.
bition campaign, which used all par.
ties, shows the folly of the Prohibi-
I ton party movement, which was
never taken seriously, since the ey-
oluticnary results in favor OF the
prohibition amendment have come
from the two great parties OF the
country responding almost equally
to the wishes of their constituents
In Europe, however, representation
! is not so free and easy q matter
consequently, both Labor and the
Church are still convinced over there
| that they must be specifically rep
resented by party groups to achieve
anything. This is the view which is
back of the so-cailed Labor Confer
ence at Berne, while the American
view, as expressed by Mr.. Gompers
who has won the English trade
unionist over to his attitude, is that
labor should meet internationally in
Paris as sheer labor organizations
and not as political organizations
though he recognizes that such q
gathering during the Peace Confer.
ence is the greatest opportunity thai
organized labor has ever had to de.
fine its general aims. In the end
| the general demands of labor on al
| countries will receive quicker atten.
ton if the American methods are
followed than if the European sys.
tenn of small political groups agi.
tating jim assemblies for specia
rights be adopted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
LET THEM RETURN

& oLDIERS having no employ
~ ment are to be permitted to
remain in the service beyond
their time of discharge until thew
can procure employment. And bv
the same token soldiers who have
jobs awaiting them should be dis
charged upon request. Thousands
of employers have held places for
men who volunteered for the war
Many of these positions are being
filled unsatisfactory by substitutes
Business. is suffering because OF the
unwillingness of employers to hll
permanently the Jobs of men in uni
form. There has been some talk OF
early discharges for such as these
but no very definite action has bean
taken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
WILL SHOOT INTO SPACE

From the Scientific Americana
In a detailed scientific discussion
of the German long range gun which
bombarded Paris last spring. Major
j. Maitland-Addison, writing in the
Journal of the Royal Artillery, takes
O peep into the future and considers
the possibility of a gun capable of
shooting projectiles entirely off the
earth into space, n Ia Jules Verne.
The requisite velocity of such O gun
is not he says, so very much higher
than what has already been
achieved; viz. a muzzle velocity of
mile per second. When we are
able to increase this to five miles per
csecond, the projectile, il fired at a
Nsuitable angle, will travel around the
earth as a grazing satellite. complet-
ing its orbit between seventeen and
eighteen times daily. With a velocity
of about seven miles a second, II will
move Off into space. never to return.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
MONDAY JANUARY %, 1918
A DEAD ISSUE

THE New York World, defender
of booze" and Democracy, al
last has gotten its anti-prohi-
bition fight off the first page, but il
continues to bore its readers with
such headlines as Maine people
make whisky in home distilleries''
and Prohibition Bolshewism."
The World is whisky's forlorn
hope in the newspaper world. It is
a voice from parched throat cry
ing in the great American desert. It's
walls of distress only serve to en-
phasize it's loneliness. 1t is quarrel
ing over dead issue. John Barley
corn is a corpse in the sun, deserted
even by his former boon companions
who are turning their attention to
giving another the place in their
businesses he so long occupied. Only
the World remains to weep over his
decomposing remains.
The World pretends to fear that
if prohibition is allowed to stand II
will be only a question of time until
the people vote to conflscate the
railroads of the country. This is
drawing a long bow even for a bar
room argument, but the World must
choose between the American form
of government and one less respon-
sive or admit that whatever a ma
jority of American voters want bad
ly enough they will get, be it the
railroads or the World itself. OF
course, we do not believe the good
thinking people will want what is
not justly theirs. That is the safety
of the American plan-the good
sense and honesty of the bulk of
the voters. They may be depended
upon to do the right thing most of
the time and to correct their errors
in a reasonable time after discov-
ering them. They know they can
have what they want when they
want it and that makes them rea-
sonable, even careless-so careless
indeed that they often postpone for
years matters that ought to demand
their immediate attention. Then sud-
denly they come to their senses and
at a single election clear the table
with one sweep. 1t has been SO with
prohibition, but having wrecked the
bar-rooms We see no reason to fear
that they are going to reach out and
grab few railroads without at least
paying for them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

way IL for no other reason than
that they kill sheep. The State dog
law was framed with this protec-
ton for sheep raisers in mind. Re-
move all dangerous dogs and sheep
growing will assume Its proper pro-
portions in Pennsylvania. 1t is
shameful that are farms are bare OF
sheep in order that a few thousand
worthless ours may roam unmo-
Tested.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
KILL THEM

"iE county commissioners hav.
Ing instructed the constab bles
- of the county to kill all unii-
censed dogs should see that the duty
Is performed. The law lie clear on
the subject. If the owner does not
think enough of his dog to pay the
necessary registration fee the ami
NAL should be put out of the way.
Stray dogs or those uncared for by
their owners are q menace to the
community. dangerous to man and
beast. They should be put out of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
OPPORTUNITY

They do me wrong who say 1 come
no more
When once I knock and fail to
find you in;
For every day stand outside your
door
And bid you wake and rise 10
fight and win.
Wall not for precious chances passed
away!
Weep not for golden ages on the
wane!
Each night I burn the records of
the day,
At sunrise every soul is born
again.
Walter Malope.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-speaker Richard j. Baldwin,
who will likely be a senator soon.
first entered the Legislature in 1895.
He used to be recorder OF Della
ware county.
Councilman b. Frank Rutn' or
Reading, is out in opposition 10 the
city manager plan for the Berks
capital.
w. II. Grier has resigned as sec
retary of the anthracite COMMITTEES
of the fuel administration. He is
one of the authorities on the trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

tions for everybody. That Is what
Roosevelt taught and it Is what is
In the minds of the people. Further
more. that is what they are going
to have. And that is why Roosevelt
looms larger and larger in the pub
lie mind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
They'd Like Him ODerdone

We imagine that Senator LaFol-
lette would have quite a warm well
come in Europe, too, If he could find
time to run across, because of his
fixed idea that the foreigner is al
ways right and America always
wrong.-Grand Rapids Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
LABOR NOTES
Hawaii has over so sugar mil

Hawaii has over so sugar mills.
Tailors in Japan are paid at the
rate of $1.95 day.
Cleveland ffremen are now work
ing on an eight-hour-day basis.
A great number of Dutch work
men who were recently discharged
by the Krupp gun works at Essen,
Germany, have been re-engaged and
have returned to the plant, where
they are now busy constructing rail-
way material.
The London Society of Compost
tors has granted the sum of $4,000
to the Labor War Memorial of Free
dom and Peace in support of the
scheme promoted in the Trade Union
Congress.
In Lancashire, England, the ma
jority of workers in the textile trade
are women, who also form a major
ity of the trade union membership
and receive the same rates of pay
for the same work as men.
In China most of the work. of
cleaning and tying hog bristles, used
In the manufacture of brushes, is
done by women, who receive from
to G cents a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
TO NJ. G. L.

I can see men
Who have lived and dared
Knowing the price.
Manned
But oh.
The sight of a little girl
On crutches,
Turns my heart sick.
ANATOLE FELDMAN.
Room 213 Commonwealth Trus
Bldg, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
No Persistence at All

Our idea of an impatient man is
one who gets discouraged after fol-
lowing perfectly good rabbit tracks
only ten miles.-F'rom the st. Joseph
Gazette
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

II it had been possible for DR.. Gar
field to have had his "heatless days''
this year, instead OF last. we wouldn't
have minded so much.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

Bolshevisim wanes throughout Ger
many" says Won Bernstorfr, but it's
hard to choose between the Bolshe-
Wiki and the Bernstorffs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
E. j. STACKPoLE

Members of, the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively on
titled to the use for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
AL rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

For some reason we are not 30 much
interested in GroundhoE Day as we
were last year this time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has grown to
be big provision distributing cen-
ter since the war began?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

Tho Portuguese Cabinet is quit
ting" says q news nash. Again. or
still?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27
Historic Harrisburg

The first successful street car line
was started here at the close of the
sixties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

Churches every where have the
biggest opportunity for service in
the saloonless days just ahead that
ever has been offered. and it will be
their own fault if they do not take
ADVANCE from it to their own benefit
and that of society in general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-27

Tailors in Japan are paid at tn,
rate of $1.95 a day.