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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-25
FIRES

on Friday evening July 18th, the
farm home OF j. E. Crew situated
three miles south of town, was de-
stroyed by fire. The house was occu-
pled by Mr.. Crews son Harry, who
with his family was at the home OF
.. Lindley, helping thresh, when
the fire occurred.
All the contents of the house were
consumed by the fire, leaving Mr.. and
-. Grew and their family of four
children without household effects OF
clothing, except that part which they
were wearing.
4ne mouse was insured in the Ohio
Farmers Ins. Co., through their
agents Jas. Grisier & Son Age. Co.,
for $600.00, and the household goods
IN the same company for $250.00.
On Tuesday evening of last week
the veterinarl barn owned by E. S
Davoll in Metamora, Ohio and occu-
pied by DIR. W. E. Watson, was de-
stroyed by fire.
The property of DR.. Watson was
insured through the Jas. Grisier &
Son ms. Age. Co., and the barn was
partially covered by insurance.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-25
Marriage Licenses

Cornelius Dancer, 25, pay master
R. R. Co., Jackson, Mich, and Inez
Allen, %. Fayette.
VIM. Klotz, %, letter carrier, To-
ledo, Ohio and Louise Gottschalk, 27
school teacher, Wauseon.
Gerald Fuller. 21, farmer, Lyons
and Ila Mae Edgar. 20, Delta.
Clifford Maltby, %, farmer, Char
don, Ohio and Gladys Cunningham, 23
CONTINUED on page eight
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-25
ADVERTISED LETTERS

Katherine Andrews, C. j. Apple
dorm, Mrs. Anna Dean, Mrs. William
Miller, Mr.. Chas. J. Nofziger, Lizzie
Pratt, VIM. C. Wells, 1. T. Wicker.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-25

Come to Wolf Lake for Wauseon
Day, July 27. The Scout band is
here and will keep things moving all
the time. Come and visit your boys
in camp.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-25
UNION CHURCH SERVICE

Owing to the absence of the pastor
Of the U. B. church for a few weeks,
the Union service will be held at the
M. E. church next Sunday evening
instead of at the U. B. church as
previously announced. The Rev. j.
F. Olive, superintendent of this dis
trict of the Methodist church will
preach.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
TIME

I ask'd an Aged Man, a man of
cares,
Wrinkled, and curved, and white
with hoary hairs:
thine is the warp of life" he said.
"Oh tell
The young the fair, the gay, to
IA it WELL"
7 ask'd the aged Venerable Dead,
Sages who wrote, and warriors who
bled:
From the cold grave a hollow MUIR
muir fow'd,
Time sowed the seed we reap in
this abode"
I asked a Dying Sinner, ere the tide
OF life had left his veins: Time"
he replied
"I've lost it, All. the treasure!"-
and he died.
I asked the Golden Sun and Silver
Spheres.
Those bright Chronometers OF days
and years:
They answered. Time is but a
meteor glare,
And bids us for ETERNITY prepare
The Rev. BENJAMIN Marsden IN
the Qhip State Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
They "Snedked 1t Through"
IHarper's Weekly

Good things are sometimes done
in a bad way, an orderly and legiti-
mate way. But here is an attempt
to do a bad thing in a bad way;
which means that 1t should be
doubly damned. Tt would be a bad
thing to abolish the so-called day
light saving arrangement, no mat
ter how It might be done. It Is a
bad thing to pass any measure as a
rider" no matter what the meas
ure may be. But to pass this day
light repeal" proposal as a rider is.
as we have said. doubly evil. II
the short-sighted advocates of II
want to try issues non IT,. let them
nut It up as an Independent meas
ure: to take It's chances according
IN STE own deserts. In that form N
would probably be overwhelmingly
rejected. which Is whv thev do not
Hare to try Il. but instead "sneak
~ In" as a rider. In 'ts present
FORM It ought to he all the more
'Surely and strongly beaten.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
Secretary Bakers Prodigdlity

Washington, July ST state de-
l~iberately that in normal times, in
time of peace, such a violation NOR
ally upon the part of an official of
the government would come very
close to leading to his impeach-
ment."
This was the language of Senator
Lenroot of Wisconsin in a speech in
the Senate in connection with the
Army appropriation bill. He, with
others. severely condemned the ac-
ton of the War Department, ap-
proved, of course, by Secretary
Baker in purchasing real estate for
camps against the will Of Congress.
The purchase most condemned
was one for large tracts at Camp
Benning. Georgia, for a school of
arms, a purchase contaminated long
after the armistice, and in spite of
the fact it is commended there we're
ample facilities elsewhere, especial
ly at Fort Sill. Oklahoma. This,
however, was by no means the only
purchase which was criticised, and
it was made clear that the Secretary
of War had done a thing which Con-
gress might nave sanctioned had the
war continued but which the coming
on of peace made very different.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
THE ENEMIES OF d

From the Scranton Republican,
The ~anti-sedition law, recently
passed by the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature and approved by Governor
Sproul for the purpose of curbing
the enemies of order in their in
sidious efforts to undermine the
Government of State and Nation,
by their advocacy of the vicious
tenets of Bolshevism and anarchy,
has promptly been invoked in this
city by the c~ommendable action of
Superintendent of Police Day in APP
pretending certain persons on the
charge of violating it's provisions.
While great care should be taken
not to deprive any man of his lib
erty unjustly, or condemn him with
out fair trial, conditions are such
as to justify the guardians
of the law in keeping a close
watch upon the agents of mis-
rule who are now active sowing the
seeds of sedition in this Republic.
1t is certainly a piece of brazen
assurance on the part of Bolshevist
emissaries to come to this country
where the people rule, for the pur-
pose of advocating the body and
soul-destroying doctrines prevalent
in Russia where neither rule nor
reason prevails.
The agents of anarchy must be
taught that America is not fertile
soil for their pernicious and poison
GUS propaganda. If the common
sense rule of the people. exercised
at the polls and subordinated to the
verdict of the majority. does not
suit the Bolshevist breeders Of dis
content let them go to Russia or
wherever else the atmosphere may
be congenial to their wild-eyed
theories.
This is a land of liberty regulated
by law, not by unrestrained license
and 1t will not tolerate Bolshevism
or any Of its kindred political here
sizes.
Freedom OF speech and Of the
press are guaranteed by the Organic
Law of State and Nation. but not
to the extent of promulgating doc
trines aimed at the destruction Of
our institutions.
The American people who poured
forth their blood and treasure so
generously for the destruction of
autocracy in Europe are not going
to tolerate any assault on their own
free and Independent government
by a lot OF half-baked agitators
whose theories would turn the world
into n vast lunatic asylum.
The great principle: "Order is
heavens first law" is the safeguard
of the American home, and of this
Republic. and those who undertake
to overthrow 1t must expect to be
treated as enemies Of this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
Takes up Billboard Fight
[From the New York Herald.

lFrom the New YORK HERALD
Opening a fight on billboards in
city streets and avenues, the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, in convention at Atlantic
City, places its interested strength
behind a public sentiment which has
been able already in a number of
cities to effect wholesome reforms
in the indicated direction. Wash
ington has abolished billboards,
Chicago regulates them by a prin-
ciple of majority consent. In Bos-
ton a charter provision is directed
against them.
New York has experienced sew
eral anti billboard agitations with
ont visible effect. Broadway still
suffers visi cations of ugly boardings.
Along Riverside Drive choice beauty
spots of sloping lawn are spread be-
fore backgrounds of unsightly ad-
vertising rising to levels of second
story window tops. Such ~obtrusive
structures offend the intelligent eye.
The men at Atlantic City find that
they also can affect seriously the
values of real estate and of bonds
issued to cover Investments in parks,
parkways and b~oulevards.
For the billboards there is no plea
of public necessity. They are in
situations purely of private profit.
No ranking for general convenience
is to be accorded to them. They lack
the qualities of fantastic display and
the virtue of assisting materially in
the illumination of a great city
which has disarmed esthetic critics
of the electric night advertising
signs along shopping fronts and
skylines.
Billboards in cities are indeed the
unbecoming products of a special
indulgence. When that indulgence
is withdrawn by urban authority, 1t
may be found practicable to clean
up the landscape along rural drives
and c%rosscountry railway lines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
Wood on Preparedness
[From the Washington Starl

sound course of physical training
in the schools. Only one-half of the
men of military age were physically
fit for full military duty. This great
number of physically, poorly
equipped men will be bad for in
dustry. Most of these defects could
have been cured if we had better
physical training in the schools. We
should also have a better and more
thorough public education system.
1t is surprising the great number of
t~literates who were found by the
draft"
This also is very persuasive. The
proper physical training makes for
efficiency in civil as we'll as in mill
tary life. The man thoroughly fit
physically for civil duties, no matter
their character, is the filter for mill
tary duties when called to perform
the latter. His health and strength
are an asset in both fields of activ-
ity. Let us have the outstanding
citizen as well as the outstanding
soldier. If we have the former, we
are certain of the latter.
AS General Wood made good as an
advisor in the matter of war, he is
entitled to a most respectful hearing
as an advisor in the matter of peace.
His advice as to preparedness for
war was not taken, to the regret now
probably of many who rejected it.
That as to peace, and preparing men
for peace duties, is before us, and
should be considered on its merits.
Now that the war is over the work
of rehabilitation calls for good men
and the best that is in them. Blood
tells. So does training. The train
ed man is, az a rule, a dependable
man, ready for his assignment, and
quick and capable in performing
whatever is intrusted to him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
DOWN FOR BILL

y ONDON hears that the Kaiser
is to escape the death penalty
through the special influence
of the United States"
London's hearing is faulty. Lon
don may have heard the voice of
Woodrow Wilson, but 1t never heard
any other American plead for mercy
for the arch fiend of German fright
fulness. No, indeed; they might
string Wilhelm up to the first tele-
graph pole outside his Dutch palace
and nobody in the United States
worthy the name of citizen would
raise his voice in protest, but a lot
of folks. doubtless, would be heard
to observe. that hanging was too
good for him"
Our own particular form of pun
ishment, providing 1t was found in
convenient to exhibit him in side
shows at ten cents a throw-pro-
ceeds to go to the war orphans
would be to make him spend the
rest Of his days helping by work of
hand and sweat of brow to rebuild
the ruined towns and villages of
Belgium. But be the sentence what
It may the American people will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
NOT THE POINT

TINE Kansas City Times offers
excellent advice to those who
would avoid a summer-weather
knockout due to too much flesh
across the equatorial region, a la
Jess Willard, by restricting the
amount of rich food we eat.
What a happy place Kansas City
must be, where a man can afford
to eat more rich food than is good
for him. We didn't think there
was any such place left on earth,
but If there is why not advertise
the act instead of ~deprecating the
enviable possibilities?
If there is opportunity to buy in
Kansas City for a dollar, say, more
steak than an ordinary man ought
to eat at a restaurant meal, (bread,
butter, potatoes and coffee not in
cluded in the price, the American
public ought to know about it.
Kansas City has n duty to perform
to suffering humanity if it has any
opportunities for ~over-eating at a
time when other cities are trying to
find ways and means of keeping the
pay envelope and the cost of living
from getting so far apart the envel-
ope will never be able to catch up
with the grocery bill.
We need no such advice in Harris
burg. When a man goes into an
eating place in this city or a woman
goes to market he, or she, as the
case may be, soliloquizes somewhat
after this manner: Lets see; I've
so much to spend, now what can
| get for the money that will go
the farthest for the cash? There's
cabbage; that ought to be cheap.
And soup-or the material thereof
a lot of that will help. And steak,
ah, how we would like to have a
steak, but that's only for million
aires. May be we better compromise
on a little beef (boiled or for boil
ing) and a couple of loaves of
bread"
Over-eating? Yes, there was a
time when we of Harrisburg got
fat for that reason. but that was
in the dear, dim days beyond recall
when a man could acquire rotundity
without the suspicion of having been
too familiar with 2.75 beer or beine
in the profteer class.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
Air Policy 'Unthinkable'
Richard Washburn Child in Col
lier's Weekly.l

[Richard Washburn Child in Col
lier's Weekly.l
Upon one thing the British are
firm. They saw the inefhciency re-
sulting from scattering the control
of aviation among various depart
ments of government. They saw the
unsatisfactory muddle when the
royal flying corps of the army and
the royal navy aviation section were
trying separately and sometimes at
cross purposes to develop power in
the air. The British have seen the
efficiency of centralized control in
the air ministry. They want it to
continue in peace. They think the
development of civil flying depends
on it So it does.
The good sense, the proved expert
ence, the wisdom and foresight of
this TACT are so plain that it gives
an American in London a shudder
when he reads a dispatch from
Washington which, instead of con-
veying the news that Congress or the
executive under the extraordinary
war powers had taken a step to-
ward centralized control OF army,
navy and civil flying, conveyed the
news that the only semblance of
centralized control built up in the
United States has been kicked to
pieces. The army air service, which
only saw growth under Major Gen
eral Kenly as director of military
aeronautics, has been taken back
and given over to the general staff!
l have before me In editorial COM
ment from one of the foremost
European newspapers:
"It is unthinkable that a great
country like the United States will
allow this state of affairs (the de-
Capitalization of control, the lack
of government assistance to the de-
velopment Of flying, and the reduc-
ton of permanent air stations to
three!) to continue. The various
phases through which the service
has passed during the war may
serve as an example Of the evils OF
indecision and the lack of definite
and continuous policy"
No less vital to the development
of flying for peace is a definite and
continuous government policy, with
government support and supervision
of flying under one central author
ity.
The British know it! Does
America?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
GOOD JOB WELL DONE

THE Harrisburg School Board is
to be commended for the
promptness with which it acted
upon the proposal to purchase the
Hoffman's Woods plot as a High
School site. Nothing could have been
gained by delay and a postponement
might have resulted in a withdrawal
by the owners of the very generous
sale price now available.
Doubtless there will be a few who
will find fault with the choice, but it
is impossible to please everybody
and no one plot of ground could
have been found upon which public
opinion would have been more
nearly unanimous. Not n word
can be said against the price, the
dom of providing for future growth
or the economy of the university or
semi-detached building plan contem-
plated, and much might be pre-
sented in their favor.
In, all fairness to the School Board
it should be said that the directors
had their eyes on the uptown site
long before the City Planning Com
mission suggested its purchase, but
it remained for the commission, act
ing independently along the same
lines, TO work out the plans, obtain
an advantageous price and offer a
concrete suggestion to the board,
which the directors, having already
made themselves familiar with the
situation. were in position to grasp
without much discussion. The de-
cision to purchase vas based, there
fore, upon the mature consideration
of the School Board amplifed by
the Planning Commissions concrete
recommendations.
And now that the site is assured,
it is to be hoped that no time will be
lost in getting ready for it's develop
ment at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
The School Board having decided
to do its part, City Council may be
expected to accept the fifteen acres
offered free in the Italian Park sec
ton. These two improvements
should go forward hand-in-hand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08

ask themselves only If it is severe
enough. There is no l%eniency for
Bill the Brute in the heart of Amer
leans, and if President Wilson has
been begging mercy for the inter-
national criminal who plunged the
world INTO four years of misery and
bloodshed, he has grossly misrepre-
scented public sentiment at home.
We cannot believe that the report
is true. It's thumbs down in the
United States for Bill. and the
President must know it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
HI TITLE IS OURS

~ OVERNOR SPROUL and Ad-
IT jutant General Beary will have
the support of all Pennsyl-
vania in protesting against the appli-
cation of the 2Sth Division numeraI
to any but the new National Guard
division of Pennsylvania, which, by
the way, will be made up largely
of former members Of the 2Sth who
served with the red Keystone on
their shoulders in France.
Pennsylvania has earned title to
both the Keystone and the division
numeral. No State has a finer record
in the war and few so good. 1t
would be both stupid and unjust for
the War Department to do such an
obviously unpopular thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
VERY interesting address S

~ was delivered by Gen. Leon
ard Wood in Washingto.. the
other night to the graduating class
of George Washington University.
This is taken from it:
This war has shown us that a
great commercial nation cannot be-
come a great military nation with
out a considerable period of pre-
paredness. We should do in the
time of peace what cannot be done
without great sacrifice in time of
war;"
General Wood, as all are aware,
was an advocate of preparedness at
a time when all the advocates of
that policy were regarded and char
acterized a. mere alarmists-as men
speaking without warrant-and by
ONE as spreaders of alarm for sell
fish purposes. The war, as all now
know, indicated him and all who
held with him. Great sacrifice was
required and made as the result of
unpreparedness when war came. At
the heaviest expense, we had to
hurry with an order which all but
paralyzed us. What we should have
been ready with in a few weeks
taxed u utmost ~endeavors for
months.
Naturally and logically General
Wood advises against slipping back
into the old and ~discredited condi-
ton. Now that we have discovered
the value of preparedness, and are
prepared, he wants us to remain pre-
pared, and to take steps to make
the future secure. On that point, he
says:
mo greater aid in fitting the
men of the country to take up arms
in time of war can be found than a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
Omar Erpurgdted

When Omar penned his famou;
screed
He little thought his lines
Would find admirers in a land
Destined to taboo wines;
But since, behold! the cards arr
stacked
In favor of the drys,
The bibulous old Persian we
Must certainly revise.
So when we take our Omar up
BY mountain stream or sea
Well change his celebrated verse
To run quite harmlessly:
"a loaf OF bread. a pitcher full
OF lemonade, and thou"
Will be the way well have to read
The Persian poet now.
-MINNA IRVING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
THE BASIN

ITH the coming of hot
w weather and the greater use
w of the noble river which
washes our front steps there is
wider interest in the proper devel-
opment of the Susquehanna Basin.
1t is o generally known that hun
dreds of canoes, row boats and mo-
tor boats are in daily use on this
broad expanse of water, and, with
the improvement of the basin as
contemplated through the opening
of channels in the reefs at Maclay
street and the raising of the level
of the river through a higher breast
on the dam in South Harrisburg,
hundreds more will make use of the
river for pleasure and comfort dur
ing several months of the year.
The association known as the
Greater Harrisburg Navy has
within its membership men of Wis
ion and enthusiasm who are con-
Quoting a constructive campaign OF
education as to the advantages of
our water front and the basin to
the end that permanent improve
ment nay be achieved at the earliest
possible date. The annual Kipona,
a river carnival which has already
become popular, has attracted at
tention to the possibilities of the
Susuuehanna Basin and during the
next year or two substantial prog
ross will be made in the plans for
bathing and boating facilities which
are so generally demanded by the
people.
No feature of our scenic attrac-
tons is more commended by the
visitor than the river basin and the
unique treatment of the embank-
ment along the city front, and when
the Hardscrabble district is con-
verted into an additional park strip
definite consideration ought to be
given some adequate plan for boat
ing and bathing facilities at that
point. 1t is not a difficult problem
and several suggestions of a prac-
teal nature have already been made
by competent engineers. One of
these plans contemplates a large
concrete boat house, so constructed
as to interfere in no way with the
park treatment from the top of the
terrace to the walk along the shore
line. Inasmuch as the Hardscrabble
improvement will probably come
within the year the Greater Harris
burg Navy officials should give seri-
Gus study to the boating and bath
ing features of that section of the
River Front.
There is no longer any criticism
of the improvement of the river
frontage; on the contrary, there is
universal approval of what has been
done for the health and comfort and
pleasure Of the people. The Sus-
quehanna Basin is a part of the
peoples recreation area and it is
quite as important to give atten-
ton to it's development as it is to
further improve our park system
and Fairgrounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
A ~SeT-Supporting Poland
IFrom the New York Sum. /

[From the New York SUM-
The boundaries fixed for Poland
include the mining districts of the
former Polish kingdom, thus fur
nishing practically all the minerals
required In modern industries; they
include also the rich agricultural
lands of the Polish provinces and
the manufacturing centers where
Polish industrial skill reached it's
highest development. New Poland
is thus from an economic point of
view what the Polish people have
sought. a truly self-supporting state.