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Evening star., 1919-11-30
Greater Penn Gardens.

Dancing Is featured nightly to. the
strains of the jazz bands at the
Greater Penn Gardens. Many dance in
the open air, although there are
winter gardens for those who do not
care for fresh-air dancing.
Evening star., 1919-11-30
CONCERTS, LECTURES, ETC.
Burton Holmes Tonight.

Burton Holmes travelogue this
veninR at $50 o'clock at the New
National Theater will cover the more
celebrated battlehelds and devastated
regions Of France, with a few DAYS in
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Had to Split Un.

Little Jack, very much impressed with his first night in a berth on a Pullman sleeper, said: "Why, grand ma, the flats were so small we couldn't all live together. Mamma and I slept in the first fiat, and Daddy in the sec ond fiat"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
No Place for Him to Ole.

Daniel Webster, taken i'll one day in a town, of decided Democratic lean fngs, begged his friends to take him home at once. 'I was born Federal ist," he pleaded. "I have lived a Fed eralist. and I can't die in 8 Democratic town"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Handy oil to Have.

Automobile oil is inexpensive, and useful for many household purposes; one drop will relieve a squeaking door hinge or heavy running sewing ma chine; wipe it off with absorbent cot ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Where They Err.

Men err not so much in prompt ac- Napoleon.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Plane Truth.

The paradoxical thing about the air plane is that it is not much good un- less it is used up.-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Optimistic Thoucht.

Talk to please others; act to please yourself.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22
Our Dollar Day Offering

Style, quality and moderate prices pro. claim this store best. You want good style, You want the best wearing qualities You do not want to pay orbitant price.
 We have style and this style is combined with fine wearing quality. its simply inn possible to fully appreciate our repeated as- sertions about the wonderful opportunities ir Furniture of today till you actually come in and with your eyes and test out personally this model and that model. Both style and wearing qualities are combined under a list of the very lowest prices you will see anywhere, and complete satisfac- ton will be yours if you invest your money here.
 Come in and look around today! YouTI open your eyes,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
Great Future for EhilHoscope
[From Philadelphia Innnirerl

IFrom Philadelphia Inquirer1
How marvelously science responds
to any new demandr Consider for
example, the case of the ehillio
scope-an instrument for detecting
the presence of alcohol Plunge it
into any liquid and it will register
the alcoholic content as infallibly as
the thermometer registers tempera-
ture. That the inventor lives in
Kansas is beautifully appropriate
fact. One of the earliest and dryest
of Saharas, that State now comes to
the rescue of its unaccustomed sis
ters.
The operation of the ehillioscope
will be followed with interest-in
some cases with painful interest.
Congress having fixed the limit of
alcohol content in u truly nonintoxi-
eating beverage at None-half of one
per cent, any that does not meet
this test. whatever its name, is
proper subject for prescription. But
termilk is not less deadly than beer
under such conditions There are
rumors that more than one-half of
one per cent. of alcohol may be de-
tected in hnttermilk. If this be true
the ehillioScope will show it. for IAN
infallible detector" cannot lie.
Whether its general use. relieving
Government agents ffom all neces-
sity of tasting the suspected fluid,
will make these less hot on the trail
remains to be seen. Each new ad-
vance of science too often reveals
some counterbalancing disadvantage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
DOnt'S To SdUe Coal
[From the New York SUM

From the New York SUM
Don't fail to clean furnace before
starting fire.
Don't build a fire until necessary.
Don't build a fire larger than is
necessary.
Don't fail to make check draft
damper in smoke pipe do its work.
Don't neglect keeping fresh water
in your steam heater boiler.
Don't fail to keep your kitchen
stove clean.
Don't keep your home at over 6s
degrees.
Don't leave your draught open at
night.
Don't open your windows and try
to heat all out of doors.
DonSt keep your fire going on
pleasant days.
Don't sit in north room when the
sun heats the south side.
Don't waste water-it takes coal
to heat it.
Don't forget that one gas jet will
raise the temperature of a room 3
degrees.
Don't fail to put up storm doors
and windows.
Don't fail to sift askes.
Don't burn coal when wood is
available.
Don't fail to wrap your pipes with
asbestos.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
Ydnk Refused to Retreat

GFrom Tie Truth About Chateau
Thierry' by Alexander Woolcott
lin the Home Sectorl
At this time arose the great legend
that General Bundy then command
ing the I'd Division had met the
French order to retreat with re-
sounding refusal:
Retreat he'll, | just got here!"
Which story born of the mood OF
those wonderful days spread like the
flu from continent to continent. 1t
was not true. But it was not sheer
invention. Captain Williams, of the
marines, getting into position with
his company on the first day, was
met by an excited French officer who
told him that the order was to re-
treat, which, as far as the French
troops were concerned, was quite
true. And Captain Williams told him
to go to hell.
He did not know that he was maxi
ing historic remark. When he re-
ported what he had said by runner
to regimental headquarters it was
not in the spirit of one who proclaims
to his superiors. "Oh listen: i have
just done wonderful and coura-
geous thing" Far from it, He had
spoken out of his heart, and then
fearing that perhaps he had not en-
ployed the proper attitude toward
an Allied officer of higher rank. he
had sent in his own report of the
proceeding to beat anyone else to it,
Captain Williams was wounded later,
and while he was on the operating
table in the dressing station he was
killed by "a random shell. lie is
among the multitudinous dead who
lie in the valley of the Marne. But
the thing he said and the work he
did is very much alive. 1t lives and
works to-day in the Treaty of Peace
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
II 4 K r ISB URG SCHOOL,
PAST 4 ND PRESENT
BY A. C. STAMM
Member Harrisburg School Board Writes Historical Sketch For
Dauphin County Historical Society
(NO.2)
BY A. c. STAMM

The average attendance was not so
high then as now, but there was only
one teacher for every sixty scholars
IN average attendance. Twenty-Five
years ago there were about tifty-five
scholars for each teacher, and last
year there was one teacher for
about every thirty-siX schola's en-
rolled.
1t is sometimes thought the
schools are getting into the hands
of the women, but whether this ten
dency, If it existed, be good or
otherwise, it does not exist. Twenty
five years ago there were 135 teach
ers in the public schools, about
twelve per cent of whom were men.
Last year there were 343 teachers,
twenty per cent of whom were men.
Sixty years ago it cost forty nine
cents per month to teach each
scholar Twenty-Five years ago it
cost about a dollar; last year it
cost over SO. Twenty-Five years ago
the entire cost of operating the
school system, per pupil, including
salaries and wages of teachers and
janitors, supplies. supervision, etc,
was $15.52 a year; in 1918 it was
$42.7S. Sixty years ago the average
salary of teachers in the public
schools was less than S35 a month:
twenty-five years ago, the average
salary of male teachers was $69.62
and of female, $45.42; in 1918 the
monthly average salary of male
teachers was S139.76, and of the fe-
male teachers $S4.30. And this year
the average monthly salary of male
teachers is about $190, and of female
teachers about $9S. The average
salary of all teachers this year is
about SLIPS.
ITO be Continucd.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
Counting

["Uncle Joe" Cannon in the Wash
ington Start
Courting? Why, bless your heart,
the young fellows of to-day do not
know the meaning of that word!
When a young man would walk five
or even ten miles through the snow
or rain or mud, freeze his ears and
fingers and face the danger of wild
cats, to see his girl, and that, too, in
the general living room. with the
family, he was entitled to admit that
he was courting.
And that was the rule, not the
exception. The young fellows would
start out Sunday afternoon to see
their sweetheartS, and no weather
was too bad to keep them at home
1t might be too cold or muddy to
take out a horse, but in that case he
would go on foot, and he would go
through as much hardship to see his
girl as did the knights of old to
rescue fair maidens in castles bold
But it was his devotion, his court
ing; and when he won that girl he
stuck to her through thick and
through thin, through good report
and evil report, obeying the scrip
tural Injunction that what God has
joined together no man shall put
asunder.
There were no marriages of con-
venience and few hasty marriages
then. The counting was long and
there were no divorces to follow.
The young people might meet often
at the singing school or the dance
or the husking bee, but these did
not take the place of regular
"courting."
The courting was on Sunday
night, and the young man went re-
ligiously to see his girl and remained
until midnight with the object of
his affection, even though the father
and mother and younger children
were present to share in the visit
When he went home, either through
the storm or under the bright star
light, he walked the earth as a con-
queror-for he had been in the
presence that to him represented
the real poem of life. He had been
courting-and that is all we need to
bring back safe and sane ideas in
ourting-courting in the
true sense of the word: The man
seeking, if not serving, like Jacob.
seven years for the object of his af-
fection. Then he will stick to her
and she to him through life.
There are some old fashions that
have not been improved upon, and
one of them is the old way of
counting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel William ID. Uhler, of the
State Highway Department, was inl
Philadelphia for the conference on
supplies of stone.
Colonel c. b.. Mehard, COM,
mander of the new First Artillery
Regiment. was in Harrisburg to-day
and greatly interested in the nswt
Guard plans here.
Andrew S. Hourigan, prominenct
LuZerne county lawyer was a Capt-
tol visitor. He used to be assistant
United States attorney.
-EX-Senator Ben Jarrett, of Mer~;
Ger, was here for short time. be
is still maintaining his interest in
western politics.
Frank Feeney, Philadelphia
labor leader. was in Harrisburg for
a time yesterday.
Waiter George Smith, noted
Philadelphia lawyer. says Armenia
could be made self-supporting re-
public If it got Black Sea port.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
BRIGGS

Abraham Lincoln, IL Play by John
Drinkwatcr: Houghton Mitlin Com
pany; S1.25. All England has gone
crazy over the play by John Drink
water who presents the story of
Abraham Lincoln in the truest and
most gripping way that either this
country or Great Britain has ever
seen.
The play has not yet been pro-
duced in America, but from the tre
mendous vogue which it is enjoying
! in London, it should not be long
| before American theatergoers will
have an opportunity of passing on 1t.
! Arnold Bennett, who writes the in
troductory note, says that 1t is one
of the great dramatic triumphs of
the age.
| Reading the play, one can readily
| see why it has been such won-
derful success on the English stage.
| The author has caught the true
| spirit of the Lincoln that we know,
the pathos. the loneliness and the
greatness of the man. 1t is a rare
| thing, indeed, for an Englishman to
produce a play on an American sub
| ject which is really in a fair way to
outdo any similar attempt by Ameri-
! can playrightS.
! The dramatic scene in the White
| House when the President is being
! urged to retire from his position
! toward secession is one of the most
wonderfully conceived scenes imag-
. Unable. All the concentrated hate of
!: war and suffering. all tLe intense
desire to free the slaves and yet hold
4, the Union together which Lincoln
| felt are remarkably brought out III
this short scene.
| I The author shows supreme tact in
introducing the character Burnet
| Hook, fictitious Cabinet member, who
personities all the antagonistic forces
against the President.
Average Americans. by Lieut.. Col.
Theodore Roosevelt: G. p. Putnam S
Sons, New York and London; So.
Theodore Roosevelt. commanding of
ticer of tie 26th Infantry, First Dl-
vision, A. T.. f.. is a worthy son OF
a worthy father" In his book,
Average Americans" which is pref
aced with excerpts from his fathers
letters during the war, Colonel Roose-
welt shows that same keen insight
into the needs of this country. and
the same courage in going right to
the heart of the matter without
mincing words. which his fighting
sire so often showed.
Going back to the days when, with
his brothers, he attended the early
training camps under General Wood
Colonel Roosevelt traces the course
or American unpreparedness. to the
.tlme when we at last became in a
measure prepared; to the time when
we began to make our power felt on
tie western front. Is months after
the declaration of war
Reviewing the work OF his own
division, the First. the Colonel tells
n most interesting story of service
in France, and concludes with an
appeal to this country to take lis
lesson from this war. and continue
the work of military education eC
that we NAV not again be caught in
the unprepared condition we found
ourselves in April, 1917. Colonel
Roosevelt sternly scores the Admin.
istration for its "pussyfooting" tac-
tics and for its unfair and dangerous
policy of favoritism. Altogether
this is book for all 100 per cent
Americans to read.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

The community service being estab-
lished in this city through the CO.
ordination of special school activities,
the Park Department and the Cham
ber of Commerce aid and support is
certain to appeal to our people.
Bringing all classes of the COM
munity into harmonious relations for
the furtherance of the general well
fare is certainly laudable and proper
movement. Through it will come a
larger contentment and a better atti-
tude toward things which are vital
in any community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
What Did George Mean?
[From the Pittsburgh DispatcL I

IFTOm the PItIsDuTBH DISpaIcE I y
The Guildhall speech of Premier
Lloyd George in which he hinted at
an understanding" of practical ma
ture which should be beneficial to
England and Russia. has stirred
every angle of political activity
among his opponents. The storm
which the speech provoked in Eng
land is in extraordinary contrast to
the calm with which the suggestion
was received and is discussed in
Paris Englishmen are sharply di-
vided between those who see In
the near future a working arrange
ment with Lenine and Trotsky and
those who believe the premier mere
ly kicked up n little extra dust TO
better conceal something else he has
in preparation and whick he does
not want disturbed by the politicians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
A Thrifty Suit0r
[From the TatlerJ

For two long years Jock had been
courting Maggie. One evening,
after a silence of nearly an hour,
Maggie said shylyi
I'll gle ye q penny for ye thochts,
Jock"
'NWeel," replied Jock with sudden
boldness, "I was just thinkin hoo
fine it wud be If ye were to gle me a
bit kissie."
She complied demurely, and again
there was a long silence until Mag
gle timidly ventured, What are ye
thinkin' aboot moo. Jock? Anither?'
ma, ma, lassie.' was the reply
II was just thinkin' that it was
aboot time We were payin' me that
penny for ma thochts."'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
BIG PROBLEM AHEAD

Commerce is fortunate in hav-
ing within it's mem bership such
a body of able and practical business
men as have consented to serve on
the housing committee. The PROB
lem facing the city is not only of
grave importance to our future
growth and we'll being, but 1t pre-
sents difficulties of the most puz-
zling nature. We need houses, there
is no debating that. and they must
be put on the market at reasonable
figures if built for sale or compare
lively small rentals if they are to
be rented. Just how to combine
good houses with what the average
man looks upon as reasonable terms
with present costs of both labor and
material is hard to see. That is the
first stumbling block in the way oil
the committee. There are many
others.
But what other cities are endeaV-
oring to do, and which some OF them
have done with more or less success
will not dismay Harrisburg. The
makeup of the committee is q
promise that the utmost measures
will be taken to give Harrisburg as
good and as practical a building
program as it is possible to devise.
The whole trend of living condi-
tions is upward. The effort to i'm
prove the status of people in general
is not confined to any one group.
Wherever business men and em-
ployers gather, there this question OF
general welfare is uppermost. The
employer has awakened to, or is fast
awakening to, his responsibilities.
Even the most humble workman is
no longer contented with a mere
roof over his head. He wants
decent place in which to spend his
leisure and to raise his family. Har-
risbure always has been blessed with
a large number of home owners, and
in general it's people have been am
bilious to improve their state in
life. That they are not clamoring in
vain is the other side OF the story.
Cooperation is the keynote of the
hour The day will come when this
spirit will rid the city of the last of
it's slum sections, but the progress
toward that end must be necessarily
slow, desirable though it be and much
as we may condemn present day
conditions in many quarters.
Somehow, some way, we must find
q means of lifting even the poorest
to the place where he can afford a
decent home. The problem just now
confronting the housing committee
is to find a way to build houses at
reasonable cost for skilled me-
chanics, sales people and others who
must have them if they are to con-
Unue 10 reside III HARRISBURG. Tne
rest must be worked out more slow
ly. If the actual shortage now ex-
listing can be met, a great step will
have been made in the right
direction.
The ice man wore a pleasant salts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

We are now confronted with a
Nation wide embargo on the rail-
roads as a result of the coal strike
controversy and 100000 men may
be thrown out of work as re-
suit. War was what Sherman de-
scribed 1t. but getting back TO peace
seems to be even worse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

oning Maurer and manifestly the pa
triotic order in his own bailiwick teel
that he ought to lose no time in
getting where the atmosphere seems
more to his liking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Down in Berks County the p. o. S.
of 4. has a poor opinion OF one James
Maurer. the noisy radical who was
denounced by Attorney General Pal
mer in his recent Harrisburg speech.
His beloved Soviet in Russia is beck
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

A Wilmington preacher wants the
convicted l. w. VS. and other
radicals stood up against wall and
shot instead of wasting time on de-
portation. which he regards as a
process entirely too slow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Bolshevik Martens threatens to
leave the country. taking a million
Russians with him, but we're afraid
he's only bluffing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Rainbow sugar by any other color
would taste as sweet-and probably
would be cheaper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Sow i6leness and you will reap tn,
same hundred fold; sow work anc
you will reap success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

the Senate. still remains a very live
issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Yes. we put 'em on for the frs
time this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

One of the smallest worries is that
the German mark, worth "a cents be-
fore the war. now brings only little
more than two cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

Coal strikers who refuse to work
pending the settlements now under
way. should be barred from any bene-
fits the miners may receive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

The ice man wore a pleasant. salts,
factory expression this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
DO YOU KNOW

-That Harrisburg has been
making steel for instruments for
the last few years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20

We are just beginning to appreciate
what a coal shortage would mean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
Books and Magazines

Captain James Norman Hall has
just completed the writing of The
History of the Lafayette Squadron
the official definitive book on the
subject, which will appear under the
imprint of Houghton Miffiin Com
pany. Captain Hall is in Boston at
tending to the final steps in connec-
ton with the publication of the
work and arrangements have been
made for him to speak on the eve
ming of November 19 at Jordan Hall
under the auspices of the North
Bennett Industrial School.
"The piary of Our own Samuel
Pepys,"- of L. p. AS Coming
Tower" says: Read this day When
Come Back of Henry Sydnor Har-
rison, brief piece, the st ory of a
soldier, and taken mostly from his
letters: and the best thing l have
read of how a civilian feels in war
C"When [ Come Baek"-just pub
lished by Houghton Miffiin Com
pany.l