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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
Hidden Facts of History

Henry Watterson in the Saturday
Evening Fost.
wonder shall we ever get any
real truth out of what is called his
tory. There are so many sides to it
ard such a confusing din of opin-
ion. How much does old Sam john
son one of the fine figures he cuts to
Boswell, and, minus Boswell, how
much would be left of him? For
nearly a century the Empress Jose
phine was pictured as the effigy of
the faithful and suffering wife sac
rificed upon the altar of unprinci-
pied and selfish ambition-lovelorn
deserted, heartbroken. 1t was Ma
poleon, not Josephine, except in her
pride, who suffered. On his return
from Elba, though his very mo-
ments were numbered, he found time
to go down to Malmaison, where,
during his absence, Josephine had
died. Hortense showed him into the
death chamber. He passed an hour
there and came out, his eyes wet
with tears. Who shall tell us the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, about Hamilton;
about Burr; about Caesar. Caligula
and Cleopatra? Did Washington,
when he was angry, swear like a
trooper? What was the matter
with Nero?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
NOT FOR US

A MERICAN representatives in
n Paris may as we'll save them
selves the pains they appar-
emily are taking to procure for the
United States a mandatory of Ar
menia, Constantinople and the
Straits. The people of this country
are tired of meddling in European
affairs and want to be left alone
to solve their own problems first.
We have no more business in Con-
stantinople than England, for ex-
ample, has in Mexico, an intrusion
which we would resent by force of
arms.
Constantinople. the Straits and
Armenia, it is true. are constant
menaces to the peace of the world,
but the way to remove their threat
is not to entrust their keeping to
any one nation, but to make them
a mandatory of all Europe.
1t is estimated that $4,000 Amer
lean troops would be required in
Armenia alone. That would mean
that our military establishment of
necessity would have to be kept
constantly on war basis. 1t would
increase our peril if war should
threaten and entangle us for all time
in the very heart of the European
spider web of diplomacy and du-
plicity.
Trouble is sure to follow if the
.,csident takes seriously the Crane
suggestions and advance them when
the Turkish negotiations are taken
lup, also because they would bring
the United States in direct conflict
with the British claims in Meso-
potamia and the French claims in
| Syria.
Although the Crane report makes
| no mention of Constantinople, that
city is included in the ambitious
scheme.
America wants none of it and il
is not likely the Senate in it's pres
ent mood would listen for moment
to such a recommendation, but il
indicates how deeply the Presidents
friends would involve the United
States in European politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

the Shade Tree act. or pass suitable
ordinances in accordance Herewith.
in order that there may be proper
supervision OF planting, removal
and protection of the trees of
the city. He properly suggests
that the city lacks uniformity in
it's trees. and without uniformity,
tree planting is at best desultory."
Commissioner Conklin makes the
further suggestion that the streets
of the city should be carefully
studied and definite species of trees
assigned to each street. We are
glad to advise him on this point that
the Department of Parks has al
ready completed survey of the city,
with view of determining the kind
of trees to be planted and the streets
to be improved in this respect, which
will make it easier to go ahead with
"a tree-planting campaign without
any loss of time during the next
few weeks
But there must be leadership, and
it would seem the Department of
Parks, with control over the nursery
and several hundred trees ready for
transplanting, is equipped as no in
dividual or group of individuals to
blaze the way for citizens generally
in this great work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
THEY COME AND GO

NH ARION, ILL, where the late
VI Colonel Ingersoll once lived
and which he aspired to see
Il churchless town. has become a
veritable city of churches. There
are now fourteen within its borders
two new structures having been
! started despite the high cost OF
building, which will give it the dis
tinction OF having more churches for
its size than any other community
in Illinois.
We don't know whether this is a
reflex of the Colonel's teachings or
| If it is merely one of those peculiar
condolences in which history ap-
pears to take delight, but it serves
to remind one that while the dis
turbing doctrines of Ingersoll are al
most forgotten, the church he
sighted is still a mighty and ever
growing force for good in the world.
So it is with all disturbers. The
cited and throws a few bricks, but
after O time sufficient for sober
second thought, it settles back again
to ways of law and order and the
disorderly factor is forgotten.
Radical Socialists Bolshevists,
Communists and their like, will
please take notice. Within another
generation they will be as extinct
as the Populists, the KnowNothings
or the Greenbackers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

which is commonly referred to as
the average price of comm odities,
is fixed, regulated, raised or lowered
by the average compensation re-
ccivcd for one hours work by every
man and every woman; and
Whereas, We believe the only sure
remedy for the high cost of living is
increased production and the stabil-
iZation of prices in conformity with
wages now being paid: and
Whereas, We believe any work
man who demands a greater pro-
portionate return for his labor than
his fellow workmen in other lines
are getting is as guilty of profiteer-
ing as a grocer who charges eXorbi-
tant prices for the necessities of
life, and that increases in wages
paid to certain classes of workers
by the Government or others will
result in higher prices being set by
the protiteers for the necessities of
living to all purchasers alike. 1t
is, therefore,
Resolved. That the persistent and
unceasing demand of workmen en-
ployed i'll all classes and kinds of
industries for a shorter days work
and an increased wage in order to
meet the present high cost of living
is unccOEOmic and unwiSc and should
not be encouraged.
Resolved, further, That private
monopolies should be controlled and
profits restricted to a rate that shall
be fair to the consumer;
Resolved. further, That unneces-
sary exports of food and clothing be
restricted and that all stores OF
boarded supplies be uncovered and
placed in the open market;
Resolved, further, That copies OF
; this resolution be forwarded to the
President of the United States, to
, the Senators in Congress from Penn
sylvania and to the Congressman OF
/ the various districts in which are
| located the various plants of the
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Com
| pany, and to the state and municipal
authorities. to the end that they may
by all the powers and means to
them available. endcavor to bring
about normal conditions, with spe-
cial privileges to none but justice
to all, and sure and swift retribu-
tion for those who may attempt to
profiteer in the necessities of life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
A BUMPY BOULEVARD

UNLESS and until the city
authorities provide definite
traffic regulations for tile
River Drive, the citys main boule-
ward, the pride of Harrisburg in its
well-paved streets and its reputation
as we'll will surely suffer.
Unrestricted use of heavy trucks
of every sort from one end of the
city to the other along the river
is breaking down the asphalt paw
ing in such a way as to practically
ruin Front street as a pleasure drive.
full of depressions as to make auto
mobile driving unsafe. 1t is an eX-
pensive operation to repair the as
phalt streets, which are seriously
damaged by unrestricted use of
enormous trucks, and the City Coun-
Gil will be compelled in the legiti-
mate discharge of it's duties to the
taxpayers to take some action to
confine heavy trucks and drays to
traffic streets, and perhaps through
municipal regulation, reduce their
legal weight on improved highways.
When the William Penn High
way shall have been finally thrown
open to the public as one of the
noted highways of the State there
will be tremendously increased traf"
fic over that portion of the highway
represented by Front street in Har-
risburg. The citv must see TO II
that the thousands of travellers who
come this way shall go out of the
city with no unfavorable impression
of our streets. But unless some
thing Is done to protect the River
Drive from the unnecessarily heavy
trucks now crowding that highway
that is bound to happen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
Winter Forecast From Mars

[W.lliam Joseph Showalter in the
National Geographic Magazine1
1t is quite generally believed that
Mars has ice capped poles Tho
telescope reveals white spots at the
poles that have every appearance
of being like our ocean Polar region.
They advance toward the equator III
winter and retreat in summer.
In the summer of 1916, Picker
ing, who, with Lowell, has led the
school of astronomers who believe
they can see canals on Mars, said
that he found the white caps
stretching farther down toward tie
equator than he had ever seen them
before. He said that IL there WAS
any connection between the weather
of Mars and that of the earth, the
winter of 1916-17 would be the cold
est in many years. And II was.
May 1t yet be possible to do long
range weather forecastng on the
earth by studying the waxing and
the waning of the ice cap on the
South Pole of Mars?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
The Black B0reen

There's lane beyant the village
that they call the Black Bo-
reen,
There come the earliest cowslips,
and grass is soonest green;
And IL you're there at noontide when
shadows shortest fall,
You'll maybe hear fairy voice out
of the hedgerow call
So they say!
If you should go at twilight into the
Black Boreen,
Shut fast the lids upon your eyes lest
fairy hands be seen
Stretched from the hedge to you, to
stop you as you pass,
To draw you to their dancing upon
the hungry grass
Och, you may!
If you should go by moonlight into
the Black Boreen,
You never will come out again as
lightheart as you've been;
You will have looked on beauty too
much for earth to bear
Och. was in the Black Boreen and
saw the fairies there
Yesterday.
Nora Chessom in the Irish World,
New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
MidpaLe Workers Sound Stand
[From the Bache Review.l

1t should be a matter of record,
well preserved, that the Midvale
Steel workers sounded the first note
of sane doctrine for labor through
out the world, in this period of seri-
Gus upheaval among the working
classes in all parts of the earth.
Their injunction that efforts to
increase wages should cease and the
best energies of the laboring world
be devoted to increasing production
and so releasing the destructive
pressure which nearly universal
lack of supply was insistently eX-
erting, is worthy of a convention of
profound thinkers.
So full of constructive common
sense and an amazing apprehension
of cause and effect in the real stu
alton is what these pioneers in sound
procedure have to propose, that we
print in full the resolutions eXpound-
ing the action which they insist
should be taken in restoring the
Balance of Reason from which the
whole working world has been car
ried off by the war.
There were ninety-three members
of the committee of employees OF
the Midvale Steel * Ordnance Co.
present at the meeting at Atlantic
City q week ago, when the resolu-
tions were adopted. These members
had been elected under the bar
gaining plan supported by Midvale
workmen. 1t may be claimed that
these delegates were of an unusually
intelligent character and stand
above. the rank and file of work.
men in the Company. Even so the
brains and conservative purpose of
/ the thousands who elected them are
shown by the fact that from their
number they chose the best. The
full text of the resolutions follow:
Whereas. The high cost of living
needs to be ahated by diligent, eff
cient and conscientious labor, by
thrift and by avoidance of waste
and extravaganza; and
Whereas, The price of commodi-
ties is regulated by the days labor
of man and the real unit of value
or the unit of compensation is not
a dollar, but the purchasing price
of n dollar, and that the price of
all things. meaning the average price
of everything we use and consume,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
NdturdHzing Names
[From the st. Joseph Gazette.

From the st. Joseph Gazette.1
During the war it became very
common for foreign residents of
America and Great Britain to adopt
English names. In many cases this
was done by simplifying the SPELL
ing or by translating the foreign
name into the English equivalent.
A third method was to choose some
English name and ask the court to
bestow it upon the alien-named in
dividual.
This last system became a nuis-
ance in England. where foreign peo-
pie showed a decided preference for
historic or old family names. Con-
fusion of indentity arose. One
case is told of two students at OK
ford. One was an upper classman
who had adopted an English name
in place of his original very foreign
one. The other was a humble
freshman of the same name. 1t
had belonged to his family for gen.
erations. Most of the time the
younger man thought nothing
about the matter. But when the
relationship of the two men was
confused and the older, better
known student was naturally as
sumed to be the real member OF
the ancient family, the freshman
decided something ought to be done
about the business.
England now has a law provid-
ing that in Anglicizing their names
foreigners must use "the equivalent
in English of the former name" and,
If it turns out to resemble an old
| family name, the consent of that
family must be secured. Also. only
naturalized citizens are allowed to
alter their names. Persons who are
stiil aliens must keep the names
they bore on August 4, 1914.
The latter part of this law will
appeal particularly to Americans.
Such provision in this country
would prevent the dishonest or
treacherous alien from concealing
his nationality by taking an Ameri-
can name, and it would add another
to the many advantages of attain
ing citizenship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
KNOW YOUR BUSINESS

+" HE Chamber of Commerce has
arranged its Merchants In
stitute at particularly oppor-
tune time, when businessmen more
than ever have come to an under
standing that their only hope for
success lies in an intimate and de-
tailed knowledge of their line.
Frank Stockdale, who will be the
institute speaker, is a man of wide
experience and brings to Harris"
the best thought o. the most pro-
gressive merchants in the country.
The opportunity offered by this
institute is one that does not often
come, and for that reason ought to
attract the attendance of every re-
taller in the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
A CITY TREE CAMPAIGN

" HERE arc said to be at least
five hundred oaks, naples
Gins and othe" trees suitable
for shade purposes ready for trans
planting at the Island Park nurs-
cry. These trees are owned by
the city, and it would be a good
thing for Harrisburg to have the
Department of Parks lead the way
in a great tree=planting campaign
in October. The setting of an ex-
ample by the municipal authorities
would have a tremendous effect upon
the individual property owners and
result in thousands of trees being
set out along the curblines and on
private premises next month. Un-
less the trees now in the city
nursery, and ready for replanting,
are removed there is likely to be a
loss which ought to be avoided by
the City Council. We have no doubt
that recommendation from Park
Commissioner Gross to his col
leagues in the municipal admins
tration would be promptly ap-
proved. There is no time to be lost
IN the preliminaries of such cam
paign as ought to be organized with
in the next three or four weeks.
State Forestry Commissioners
Gonklin, in a letter to the Tele-
graph, has pledged. his Department
10 aid in every way possible. the
shade tree situation in this city His
Judgment is that the first thing %
do is 10 have the City Council adopt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Elk Congressman H. B. Pack
er. of Wellsboro, was among the
visitors to Harrisburg yesterday.
He came here on highway matters.
Public Service Commissioner ].
w. Reed will make his home in
Harrisburg during the winter.
President J. w. A. Haas, of
Muhlenburg College, is arranging to
have the college continue military
training.
James A. German, the Halle
ton food administrator, has named
fair price committees for his sec
tion of the State. He says that is
the way to obtain action.
John r. Bechtel, the honorary
head of the Bechtel clan, lives at
Reading and is ninety-one years old.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
MONEY THAT GOT AWAY

IN THE last decade probably
several dozen men who had
= amassed fortunes in business of
various kinds in Pennsylvania died
in New York. New England. Florida
or California and the State within
whose limits they had made mill
ions did not get cent in the way
of taxes. The commemorative
wherein the decedents were domi-
ciled got their share of the money,
although the estates consisted in
some instances of Pennsylvania
property, Pennsylvania securities
and Pennsylvania assets of other
kinds. No one knows how many
millions this State lost through
operation of law that worked
against it.
Thanks to the policy of the
Sproul administration in urging
laws to get after the money that
belongs to Pennsylvania and to the
far-sighted recommendations OF
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder,
this State is now able to serve notice
that transfers of property under
wills or intestate laws can not be
made unless the State receives the
share of taxation which present day
public policy provides shall go back
to the people. The fiscal officer has
been energetic in getting the system
started and the financial institutions
of the State are helping him.
Pennsylvania will get thousands
to which it has been entitled te-
GAUGE it was made here, but which
under the old laws got away.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
Hiqh LiDing

Baby Gertrude found some coal,
She nibbled 1t with great delight
Till pa said: Gertrude, pray con-
troll
Your expensive appetite.
Brooklyn Citizen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 10, 1910

IT knc1o you and you knelC me
II both Of US could clearly see,
ind Nth an inner sight divine
The meaning, Of yc,r heart and mine,
Pm sure that ;De. ,ooMld differ less
h.d cicSp our hands w fricndlinesss
Our thoughts tcouId pleasantly agree
II knew you and you knetc me.
-Niron Waterman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
Of nil news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
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AL rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg m de
cartridge silk during the WARP,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first water was turned in
to the canal here ninety-one years
ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-10

Governor william c. Sproul has
let 1t be known that he does not in
tend to take up changes in various
departments of the State govern
ment for a month or so at least.
Several plans for reorganizations
have been prepared, including the
Compensation Bureau, but the Gov
ernor will wait,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Carnegie g Will
lol)ispose Of
$55O,OO0,OOO
Eliilu Root, .Er., Says Value
of Estate Will Be Made
hnown Definitely When
Document l. Probated

Andrew Carnegie's Will is to be filed
for probate next week, it became
known yesterday Reports have it that
the ironmaster's estate is worth about
S50,00000 onc-tenth of the $5OO,00O,-
600 his ventures and investments
earned. Root, Clark. Buckncr & How
land are attorneys for the estate, and
the Home Trust Company of Hoboken.
Carnegie in 1901 to handle his own al
fairs, Is named executor without bond.
Mrs Roswell Miller Mr. Carnegie 5
daughter. was provided for by him at
the time of her recent marriage, it is
understood, and, therefore. she is not
as large a legatee as she otherwise
would have been. Elihu Root, jr., said
last night that the value of the estate
would be made known definitely when
the will is probated.
Neither does the instrument include
bequests to many persons for whose
welfare Mr.. Carnegie was known to
have had deep concern. Hundreds of
such were taken care of in his life
time by being placed in life positions in
institutions controlled bv Mr. Car
negie or by being placed on his private
pension list.
1t was for just such philanthropies
that Mr.. Carnegie organized the Home
Trust Company. The tr~st company
accepted no deposits other than his
own, and its existence was known to
but few. The arrangements made by
Mr.. Carnegie for liquidation of the
claims Of depositors OF the defunct
Carnegie Trust Company, with which
Mr.. Carnegie had no connection, but
whose obligations he assumed because
it bore his name, were consummated d
in his Hoboken office.
Elihu Root is understood to have
done the actual drafting of the ultimate
document.
The Home Trust Company is enabled
tate in New York because of reciprocal
this state. When the New York Legis-
lature some years ago amended the
banking law to permit trust companies
to act as executors without depositing
10 per cent of their capital with the
State Superintendent of Banking no
one was found who could explain the
reason for the change. That it was
done to permit the Hoboken insttu-
tion to act as executor of the Carnegie
estate now seems APPARENT
New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
Daylight LaaU Is
Killed by Senate
Esch Repeal Measure Is
Passed, 81 to 10, Orer
the Presidents Veto
NeW York Tribune
Washington Bureau

Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Aug 2O.-The day
light saving act was chalked off this
afternoon when the Senate followed
the example Of the House and over
rode the Presidents veto of the Esch
repeater. The wartime system will
continue in effect until the end of the
present season, but will not be re-
sumed next summer
The Presidents veto was overridden
by vote of 81 to 10. The supporters
of the daylight savings system fell
short seven votes in their effort to
sustain the veto. Of the nineteen
Senators who cast their votes to re-
tain The new time system, ten were
Republicans.
TIL outcome was hnown in advance
and The friends of daylight saving
took no time to debate its benefits.
Senators who voted to sustain the
Presidents veto were:
Republicans: Senators Calder, New
YORK; Colt, Rhode Island; Edge,
New JERSEY; Elkins, West Virginia;
Hale, Maine; Johnson. California;
Lodge. Massachusetts; McNary,
Oregon; Page, New Hampshire; and
Phipps, Colorado.
Democrats Gerry, Rhode island;
Henderon, Nevada Hitchcock. Ne
braska; Owen, Oklahoma; Phelen.
California; Pittman, Nevada; Robin
son, Arkansas; Thomas. Colorado,
and Walsh, Massachusetts.
Heavy pressure was brought upon
Senator Wadsworth, of New York, but
he voted to override the veto.