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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08
CAREFUL, MIR. MARSHALL

careful, careful, Mr.. Marshall!
You are going to get in Dutch
with President Wilson If you
don't look out. You have had a
mighty easy thing of it being Vice
President so far, but it is only be-
cause you have not opposed any
thing the White House wanted. Now
to come out and boldly condemn the
Bolsheviki and to hint that you, as
President, would not have sent such
men to Russia as Messrs. Steffens
and Bullitt, is to defy the lightning,
indeed.
Now understand us, Mr.. Vice.
President, we quite concur in your
simon-pure American views. We
rejoice in your patriotic sentiments
We believe, with you, that America
can have nothing in common with
Bolshevism. We recognize Steffens
for the rank Socialist he is and with
YOU we suspect he is entirely toe
prone to listen to the siren song OF
Lenine as he sits on his tottering
throne and yowls about the virtues
of Bolshevism. --'.
And we are in full accord with
your views concerning the folly OF
placing the stamp of government
approval on a man whom the
Reds of Europe look. upon as one
of them, as they did when they pro-
nounced Bullitt's going to Berne to
attend their international confer
ence of radicals, at time when
Samuel Gompers and the American
Federation of Labor refused to send
delegates, as a triumph for Social
ism. If not an actual recognition by
President Wilson.
We are just as much disguised
with the Presidents choice Of dele
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08
THE PEACE TREATY

TIME peace treaty offered to the
i Germans yesterday by the
Allied conference is, on the
face of the document, severe enough
in its terms to please even the most
exacting. 1t sets forth in no uncer-
tain language the price Germany
must pay for the crime of trying to
bring the world to her feet. The
treaty is all the more humiliating
to the naughty Hun because he
must sign it or suffer the conse-
quences - and the consequences
would be starvation and would re-
suit in either the utter ruin of the
empire or would bring Germany on
her knees, groveling at the feet of
the Allies, begging for any sort of
terms that included food, within the
coming year.
The German delegates are re-
ported as proud and arrogant" ."
That is mere camouflage. They will
bluster and threaten and demand,
but in the end they will sign, and
when they do sign they will turn
over to the Allies practically all the
resources of Germany for a long
period of years and put themselves
at the mercy of their conquerors
until such time as Germans show
some signs of common sense and a
sincere desire to behave like honest.
decent folks.
Germany must not only give I'D
great bulk sums for the damage she
did to France and Belgium, but
must pay individual losers for the
ruin of their properties. This is
just retribution and is far less than
the Kaiser would have demanded of
the Allies had he won the war.
Probably the German people realize
to-day as they never did before
what the word "frightfulness" means
to them, and how the word has
come back to haunt them, for the
peace treaty means that the burden
of the war must rest largely on
their shoulders and that for a gen.
Grafton at least they must work and
toll and save that their injured
meighbors may benefit. They have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08

become the slaves of their own
greed and cruelty and there will be
none in the world to pity them for
the punishment that is about to be
inflicted.
But it is not in money alone that
Germany will pay. She will pay
with her pride, as we'll. Germany,
by the terms of the treaty, loses
Alsace-Lorraine and the wonderfully
rich Saire Valley. She must give up
her navy and a large part of her
merchant marine as return for the
depredations of her piratical sub
marine craft during the war. She
must open the Kiel canal to all ma
Heligoland, raze her forts for fifty
miles east of the Rhine and agree
to keep her army within a limit of
100000 men. This is a fine mess of
crow for the proud and arrogant"
German delegates, and the Allied
Commissioners may be depended
upon to see that they eat it to the
last bite.
1t is to be observed that the
League of Nations is made part and
parcel of the peace treaty, so that
the Senate of the United States will
be forced to accept it or reject the
whole treaty. This is shrewd and
unfair politics on the part of Presi-
dent Wilson. But the League as it
stands is not so Objectionable as it
was when outlined originally. There
are many Americans who believe
that it will be of small value in
preventing wars, but they are also
convinced that many of it's possibili-
ties for harm have been removed
and, in all likelihood, the whole
treaty will be endorsed during the
extraordinary session of Congress
called yesterday for May 10 by the
President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08
PROSPERITY AHEAD
NEWSPAPER

! - NEWSPAPER publishers OF
N Pennsylvania, meeting in Har-
risburg yesterday, expressed
themselves as believing that a per-
iiod of substantial prosperity lies
,ahead for the newspaper business.
IThis will be good news for the gen.
eral public as we'll as for those in
terested in the publishing business,
for the reason that newspapers pros
per only to the degree that the coun-
try as a whole prospers.
When trade begins to decline, the
newspaper feels the condition in a
decreasing volume of advertising;
when men lose their jobs or their
earnings are cut, the subscription
list feels the effects at once. But
when business is on the boom and
there is work for all who want it,
the newspapers share in the good
times.
No business has been more hard
! hit by the war than the newspapers.
Raw materials have advanced as
much as six and seven hundred per
cent. Machinery has gone out of
sight. Postage is much higher and
the great volume of newsmatter
cabled from Europe and the in
creased space demanded by the war
news have combined to run up the
costs of production to an extent not
L.,
ally all newspapers that formerly
sold for cent copy now bring
ten cents a week. That rift in the
cloud, through which the publishers
see a return of blue skies in the near
future, is welcoming break in the
gloom that has surrounded many
publishers, particularly of the small
er and weaker newspapers, ever
since the war began.
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WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General c. M. Clement, 4of' Sun
bury, former commander of the
Pennsylvania soldiers, was in Har-
risburg to appear on behalf ofwea
bill in the legislature
Joseph Gaffney, head Of |flTe
finance committee of tho Philade1-
phia council. has been here for "a
couple days comforting with State
officials.
Roger ]. Dever. Wilkes-Barre
lawyer here this week on compensa-
ton legislation. says he is kept busy
discussing proposed enactments.
Judge ]. Whitaker Thompson
of PHILADELPHIA. was here in con-
nection with the movement for the
Pennvpacker statue.
Senator William r. Crow an
Governor Sproul rejoice in the ssaE+
year of birth. ~
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GERMAN LANGUAGE VETO
[From the Philadelphia Press.l

From the Philadelphia Press
Governor Sproul showed his good
sense and courage in yetoing the
foolish bill prohibiting the teaching
of the German language in the pub
lie schools. That language is not
taught in our schools for the benefit
of the Germans, but for the benefit
of Americans. To know that Ian
guage is a help to them in business.
in study, in research, in travel and
in many ways. None need pursue
that study unless they desire it and
if they desire it, they should not be
denied the opportunity to learn it,
No doubt, the German language,
as well as the German people and
all things German, are in dsfavOr
just now. We may never recover
our former good opinion of the Ger
man people, but we shall have to do
business with them and some Amer
leans at least should know their
language. We may long continue
disposed to boycott the German peo-
pie so far as possible, but there
can be no permanent boycott of Ger
man trade, of German music, liter
ature, philosophy and science. To
deny ourselves access to those ad-
vantages, would be a senseless and
childish sacrifice of our own inter-
est, pleasure and profit.
The veto showed courage because
the passage of the bill by the al
most unanimous vote of both houses
seems to indicate a strong public
opinion in favor of the legislation
Undoubtedly, there is a very prova-
lent feeling entertained very strong
ly by many people that it is patri-
otic duty for us to hate and avoid
everything German henceforth and
forever more. Without fresh and
repeated provocation and irritation
this would be impossible even If it
were desirable. But hatred of Ger
mans does not demand hat~ed cf an
inanimate object such as the Ger
man language. 1t will continue to
be one of the great modern Ian
guages that Americans should learn
when they can for their own benefit
and advantage and not at all for the
benefit of hated Germans.
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THE CALL OF SPRING

Oh, little flowers, hurry, hurry,
Else you'll be in such a furry.
Spring is calling-she is near!
Listen! and her voice you'll hear.
Get up quickly, shake your tresses,
Put on all your pretty dresses.
AS I spoke, the Aconite
Popped up nimbly into sight,
Donned her gown of yellowy sheen.
With it's fluffy frill of green.
Then the Crocus turns in bed
Must have heard the words ! said)
And, from underneath the clothes
Pol<es I'D his wee spear-like nose.
Then he calls his sisters-cousins,
Such n number! dozens, dozens!
In q flash they come to light,
Dressed in purple, yellow, white.
The lovely Snowdrop now awakes,
And a careful toilet makes,
Her soft-white frock, perfect
Hos inst a soupcon of pale green.
Now Daffodils come bounding out.
such noise they make, is quite rout
Laughing dancing, as they sing,
I'VE are Trumpeters of Spring.
ANrakens, too, the Primrose fair,
AS she breathes, fragrance rare
Seems gently waited on the air.
Like gratitude for answered prayer
A moment ere Spring glides away
She stoops, her sweet face to lay
TTnon the earth, beneath the trees
That whisper softly to the breeze.
And all along her path. peep up
The Daisy and the Buttercup,
And laughing Celandines arrayed
In shimmering gowns, gold brocade'
And merry Cowslips, full of fun,
That DER the meadows lightly run
And Bluebells. in a gray-blue mist.
Pise from the ground that Spring
has kissed.
kissed.
oh. little flowers. you never preach
Yet silently you ever teach
Most precious lessons without speech
Annie Harrison.
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ONE COMES NOT

Now comes the Great Returning!
Swift gray ships
Bring great hearts home to hearts
that waited long.
One comes not
One who always, always dreamed
OF following far-flung paths across
the world.
Through all the lands some day I
mean to go,
And see the strange fantastic ways
they have
Odd peoples in the corners of the
earth"
How much, how much he saw!
How much
OF tumult and of strangeness ere
he fell!
Always he followed boyhood's ven
turing dreams,
Old legends of the world he sought,
old-tales
OF nobleness, the cropping, seeking
OF half-emembered, half-forgotten
worlds.
What matchless stories is he read
ing now.
This boy who lies beneath the stars
in France,
Who, wondering, saw the mighty
tale unfold,
And, dying, helped the world her
dream unroll.
Always we listened, smiling, to his
plans
tn
world,
And them come home to write great
wondrous tales,
Wherein would surge the magic of
the seas.
Always his voice on each word lin
gered just a hearts beat,
Strange, how strange, it must have
sounded there,
The soft, half-drawing of his
Southern tongue
In that wild storm!
Great eager eyes seemed always
questing on
Beyond the hills that bound him in
grave eyes
Which ha1f-awakened, quickenine
boyhood brings.
What soft sweet eyes he lifted to
the flag,
That day it's peril came!
What boyish hands closed all his
books!
What boyish soul looked up
And softly barred the door on all
it's dreams,
And shut out all the magic world
of Youth,
And grave-eyed saw the storm,
But smiling rose,
And, smiling, chose to go.
Now comes the Great Returning!
One comes not;
But all the worlds heart reads the
wondrous tale
The story that he wrote out with
his blood,
The story that he lived out with
his death.
The Great Book that he wrote-not
coming home.
Eleanor Cochran Reed
in the New York Times
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Legislature and State Police
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
By complete reversal of its pre-
Vlous action, the House of Repre-
sentatives has passed finally the bill
authorizing an increase in the num-
bers and the efficiency of the Stale
Police Force. 1t was the right thing
to do and the members deserve
commentator for having the cour-
age to admit their mistake.
The establishment of what is
known as the State Constabulary
only came after long and earnest
debate. 1t represented the settled
conviction of the best citizens of the
Commonwealth. There was opposi-
ton, of course, but it was based up
on false conception of the purpose
of the force. The real idea was to
give the people of the rural districts
the same protection to life and prop
erty which is now afforded to those
living in the cities and in crowded
sections. The history of the organ
ization has more than justified is
creation, and it would have been a
great pity If unfounded prejudice
had permitted the crippling of what
is now conceded to be an essential
part of the police power of the Com
monwealth. Some of the opposition
to the present bill came because of
the desire of the Governor to con-
bine the duties of the fire, fish and
game wardenS in the hands of the
State Police, but that evidently is n
move in the direction of better ad-
ministration and efficiency, and is
probably warranted by the condi-
tions.
In the debate in the House prior
to the final vote, many interesting
points were brought to the attentlon
of the members. Several Legislators $
proved that serious crime had been
prevented through the vigilance and
activity of the force. and cited in
stances where murderers and Others
had been brought to justice through
it's cleverness and courage. Incl
dentally it developed that the old
mistaken notion that the State Po-
lice was aimed at labor organ.za-
tions still prevailed in some quar-
ters. One member said that labor-
ing men resented being classed with
the Bolshevists. or course they do,
and no sane or fair-minded man
would dream of making such an
absurd charge. The great error is
to assume that all are not equally
concerned in the preservation of law
and order. We do no believe that
those who have opposed the en-
largement and perfection of the
State Police represent the candid
opinion of the great body of the
working men in Pennsylvania. The
men who work for a living consti-
tute the bone and sinew. the back
bone of the citizenship of the State
and the bill in question is for their
benefit as it is for all law-abiding
persons.
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NeW Fuel For Airpldnes

Development 100 late for use in
war time of a motor fuel which adds
ten miles an hour to the speed OF
and has possibilities for
use in automobile racing has been
announced by the bureau of mines.
The liquid, combiantion of benzol
and cyclohaxane called hector, costs
about 81 gallon. While of military
value, 1t is not regarded as practical
for commercial purposes.
Another combination developed by
the bureau. consisting of benzol and
gasoline, has been found to be more
powerful than gasoline aionC, end
is expected to p: owe of value in in
dustry. The comparative scarcity of
benzol makes its production to sup
plant gasoline on a large scale i'm
probable at present,-From the
American Machiaist-
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4 Campers Rhapsody

on the pine stems, listening to which
in silence and sweet concern we,
who were lying under the fragrant
trees, like happy and weary chill
dren, have fallen gently asleep-all
these sounds live in this magic word.
And in it, too, are human voices,
songs, laughter, and all the noises of
merriment and frolic. No other pho
nograph is like it. The songs
around the campfire under the stars
in the hush of evening, the strang-
er's hail, the guides call to break
fast. the flutes soft note heard
over the water on a still night, the
cheer at reaching camp and the
murmured farewells at leaving -
verify, it is a vocal word, all the
sounds that come from it are melo-
dy.-W. H. H. Murray.
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Something in a Name

Gee. whiz! Isn't that Smithson
who just went by in his automobile L?
When I knew him few years ago
he had a junk shop"
HE still has. Only he moved it
to a fashionable street and labeled
the same stock Antiques '"-Bos-
ton Transcript
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08

are 100 per cent organized.
Members of the Typographical
Union in Cleveland. Ohio, have re-
ceived an increase in wages of from
$27 to $40 a week.
A Sheffield (Eng.) firm has con-
verted its war aeroplane factory into
plant for the manufacture of
small-scale model locomotives and
steam engines, which were former
ly imported into Great Britain from
/ Germany.
Brooklyn IN. " returned SOL
diers who are roofers find it difficult
to pay the union initiation fee of
SIS. and are allowed to pay in in
/ stallments.
A South African tanning concern
/ has largely increased it's output of
upper" leather by the introduction
of a special dressing machine.
At a recent meeting held in Pitts
burgh and attended by representa-
tives of nearly 100 trade unions it
was decided to give every possible
assistance in the campaign to Or
ganiZe employees in the stel and iron
industry and to demand the right
of free speech and free assemblage.
A conference of the employees in
the Metropolitan Poor Law Institu-
tions in England have formulated
the following program: Forty eight
hour working week with one clear
days rest in seven. so per cent. in
crease on pre-war rates of wages,
plus existing war bonus.
, The union coal miners of Arkan-
| SaS won a 15-year fight against the
| operators when the Arkansas Legis-
| lature, which closed recently, passed
! in original form and without the
! slightest change a bill providing for
wash houses at all coal mines in the
! State employing ten or more men.
During the last year increases
ranging from so to 20 per cent. were
granted to workers in the silk rib
bon industry in Switzerland. over 75
per cent. of the employees in the
watch factories were also given the
same amount of increase.
The over $4,000 employees of a
large Toledo (Ohio) automobile fac
tory are asking their wages be in
creased Is per cent, a week of five
working days, eight hours a day for
| five days and four hours on Saturday.
| To grant the increase would mean an
additional expense to the company
of $4,00o,00O. ....
Recent legislation enacted by the
Brazilian Congress and officially pro-
mulgated by the Vice-president of
Brazil provides for the payment of
compensation to workingmen killed
or injured in the performance Of
| labor.
An investigation made by the De-
partment of Agriculture and Con-
gress shows that since the outbreak
of the war about $4,000 new factor
les have been established in Japan
and workers employed number over
270,000. In addition, about 5000
| factories were enlarged during the
war and the number of additional
employees is about 100000.
According to report about to be
issued by the Department of Com
merce, the electric light and power
stations in the United States during
the year of 1917 generated more
than $4,000. 100000 kilowatt hours
of electricity, producing an income
of more than half billion dollars,
and gave employment to more than
10000 persons. whose salaries. and
wages gregaA nearly 100000
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg Is sclliNG
more products these days than
before the war began and that
too in spite of the industrial
let down?
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THE GIFT OF GLADNESS

The gift is thine the weary world
to make
More cheerful for thy sake.
Lighting the sullen face of discon-
tent,
With smiles for blessing sent.
Enough of selfish wailing has been
had,
Thank God! for notes more glad.
Whittier.
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gates to Russia as you are, Mr..
Vice-President. but again we warn
you. Step easy, speak lightly. or
Mr.. Wilson IL git you eff you don't
watch out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-08

I've. dllus noticed CRATE success
Is rnired .oith troubles, more or less,
An it's the man toho does the best
That gifts more kicks than all the rest,
Jones Whitcomb Riley.
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SPRING POSIES

Tis certain something has been lost
From spring times blossoming glee,
When onions are as high in cost
As orchids used to oe.
s. Washinxton star.
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THERE is no other word in the ,
vocabulary of our language so |

vocabulary of our language so
suggestive of rare and pleasant
conditions of living as camping. 1t
is more than a mere word-it is a
symbol as well.
Not only is it a word for the eye,
but it is equally word for the ear.
For in it are the signing of zephyrs,
the soft intoning of slow-moving
night winds, the roaring of strong
gales, the moaning of tempests and
the sobbings of storms amid the wet
trees. The looms call, the splash of
leaping fish, the panther's cry, the
pitiful summons of the lost hound
the slashing of deer wading among
the lily pads, and the gentle drip
ping of odorous gums falling softly
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Refinement of Cruelfu

Just to make the punishment a
little worse, the Allies are going to
make the Germans translate the
70,000-word peace treaty into their
own language.-Des Moines Registrar
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Yes-If Any

Blessed is the man. If any, who
can get as much satisfaction out of
a $3.50 spading fork and a 79-cent
hoe as he could out of $4,000 tour
ing car.=From the Ohio State
Journal y