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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Our Businessman Governor

Public service is relatively more
expensive and less efficient than pri-
vate service because the machinery
of the former is created and fixed by
law. There are good reasons ~why
the ''hiring and firing" system which
works successfully in private enter
pises should be rigidly excluded from
Governmental departments. But
that is not to say that there should
not be frequent revisions of enact
ments creating places and prescrib-
ing salaries. AS things are in pub
lie offices too many drones are
buzzing about killing time between
pay days. Public office is a pr-
vate snap" at the expense of the
taxpayers. 1t should not be that.
Public business ought TO be conduct
ed as economically and efficiently as
are private enterprises. That is
Governor Sprouts idea. And it will
be indorsed throughout the State by
those who are not enjoying any off :
cial sinecures and have no prospects
of securing any such. "A days work
for a days pay" is the Governors
slogan with respect to- the State De-
partments. 1t is good to have
business man in the executives
chair insisting on business practices
in public offlces.-Pittsburgh Ga
zatts- Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
THE FLU

When your back is broke and your
eyers are blurred,
And your shinbones knock and your
tongue is furred.
And your tonsils squeak and your hair
gets dry,
And you're dOggone sure that you're
going to die.
But you're skeered you won't and
afraid you will,
Just drag to bed and have your chill
And pray the Lord to see you
through.
When your toes curl up and your belt
goes fiat,
And you're twice as mean as a
Thomas cat,
And life is a long and dismal curse,
And your food all tastes like a hard
boiled hearse.
When your lattice aches and your
heads abuZZ.
And nothing is as it ever was
You've got the flu, boy, you've got the
flu.
What is it like. this Spanish flu?
Ask me, brother, for I've been
through.
1t is misery out of despair.
1t pulls your teeth and curls your
1t thins your blood and breaks your
bones
And fills your craw with groans and
moans;
And maybe sometime you'll get well;
Some call it flu; I call it-well?
We've had ours, have you?
George Chamberlain in Atchinson
Co. Mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Vittori9 Orlando,
" Savior of Italy.
Military Debne of 1917 Former

from the province OF ,Partinico in
1892. His pace among the deputies
has been confirmed by his province
at every election since.
In 1903 he had accepted the port
folio of public instruction under
Giolitti, then premier. In 1907 he
returned to the cabinet as minister of
justice, from which position he re-
tired in 1909, but came back to the
administration in 1914 in the same
capacity, to be raised in 1916 to
minister of the interior, from which
office he was elevated by the king
to head the new ministry.
Represents Il United Italy
He piloted Italy through the
stormiest period of it's career and
now he is faced by the little less
difficult task of directing after-the-
war reconstruction. Here is mani
tested his breadth of vision and
foresightedness, for last summer,
when few even of the most optimis-
tic statesmen of the world dared
hope for an early cessation of hos
tilities, Premier Orlando began pre-
parations for Italy's rehabilitation,
through the "after-the-war" COM
mission, of which he was president.
In q speech before that body in
august the premier SketcneQ tne
necessary procedure for the demob-
ilization of the army and the return
of it's four million soldiers to indus
try, and briefly touched upon the
emigration problem which he eX-
pected with the close of the war.
He concluded his address:
Concerning the time chosen for
starting and developing our work. I
might remark that the after-war
problems began to develop as soop
as the war started. On the other
hand, the elements they involve are
ever changing, so that schemes that
would solve the problems which pre-
sented themselves two or three
months ago are already out of date.
1T behooves us, therefore, to
select the opportune time for begin
ming our study of these problems.
We think we. have done this. If. i'm
response to the hopes of all, victor
ious peace should not be long de-
ferred, the approach Of such an au-
spicious moment would redouble our
energies and our activities"
Not a party man, Premier Or
lando represents q united Italy at
the peace table. He never has as
pired to party leadership-his larger
ershiD, and that he has attained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

MYTH the death of DR.. Nathan
w c. Schaeffer. State Superin-
tendent of public Instruc-
ton. there passes one of the fore
most educators of the United States,
whose tenure of the officer of Super
intendent of Public Instruction in
this State was a record. DR.. Schaef-
fer was noted as editor and author,
speaker and publicist as we'll as
an educator. He represented the
connecting link between the forma-
tive days of the school system and
the changed conditions resulting
from the world war and government
tai experiments in industry and
utilities.
DR.. Schaeffer had an abiding love
for Pennsylvania and his services
was conspicuous. He was one of
the men who helped give the Com
monwealth its beautiful State Capt.
tol and his voice was always raised
for better buildings for the youth
of the State. 1t is melancholy
coincidence that he passed away on
the first anniversary of the death
OF a. D. Glenn, long his right arm,
and on that of the burial of Henry
Houck, his friend and co-worker for
many, many years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
WEATHER QUESTIONS

1.-TWO questions we would pro-
pound for the consideration of
weather-wise souls who may
peruse these lines:
First, was last weeks snow the
onion snow?" Second, was yester-
days disturbance the semi-annual
equinoctial storm?
We confess ourselves puzzled and
We imagine we are not alone. Street
cars were full of onion snow" dis
cussion Friday, and courageous in
dividuals who ventured forth yes
terday to service found as much in
terest in the theory of the equinox
and its attendant disturbance as in
the text or the Sunday school les
son. We speak as one in authority,
having participated in sundry de-
bates and discussions of the several
propositions.
OF course, we might ask the Of
fetal weather forecaster. Mr.. De-
main, about it; but if one mentions
"onion snow" or "equinoctial storm"
within the confines of his weather
dispensary in the Federal building
one should stand near the door if
one would escape having an ear
bitten off or being thrown out the
nearest window-and it's third
story window, at that. For Mr.. De-
main believes no more in "onion
SHOWS" or "eauinoctial storms"
than he does in Ground Hog day. or
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
DOING A GOOD WORK

I@OUNTY COMM SSION ERS
~ sTINE AND CUMBLER are
doing an excellent work in the
equalization of property assessments
throughout the county, and they
should be encouraged to continue
what they have so well begun.
Partisan politics has no place in
the fixing of land valuations, and
those who are attempting to make
a campaign issue of the assessments
now being. levied are placing party
advantage above public welfare. and
they ought to be ashamed of them
selves.
The& criticism OF the majority
members of the Board of Commits
sioners is unjust. The accusations
have been proved false. They We're
based solely on the minority mem
ber's desire to be reelected, backed
by an INSCRIPTIONS political machine
and its purveyors of transformation.
Messrs. Slime and Cumbler have
added more than a hundred million
dollars worth of assessable prop
erty to the books of the county.
This will produce enough revenues
to give us the good roads, the
bridges and the new Courthouse we
need, without costing the individual
taxpayer one penny. Not only that,
but they have raised assessments
where they were too low and low
cred them where they were too
high. They have been as fair as it
is possible to be in the difficult
business of fixing valuations that
are varying almost constantly, and
the taxpayers will be enriched by
hundreds of thousands of dollars as
4 result. They are going quietly
along with their work, regardless of
the fact that Commissioner Wells.
playing his pitifully petty game for
reelection, is obstructing where he
should be helping. They need not
be disturbed. The voters know the
facts and appreciate what they are
doing. ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Sproul and Coal ProfiteerS
philadelphia Inquirer.1


Governor Sproul is entitled to the
thanks of the people, not only of
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, but
of the entire country, for his prompt
challenge of the right of the coal
producers to increase the price of
coal at this time. He directs the
Attorney General to inform him If
the State has the power to go into
the causes for the proposed advance,
and if it has not he suggests that
the Legislature is in session at this
time, and that if necessary remedial
laws can be enacted at once. The
Governor has struck popular
chord, and it is to be hoped that we
may get the exact truth, that we
may go to the root of the business,
and that coal consumers will be
given the relief to which they are
clearly entitled.
The promptness with which the
Governor has acted in this matter
is more than half the battle. Hereto
fore the public seemed to be in a
condition of abject helplessness. We
have had investigation after investi-
cation, but in nearly every instance
it has been n case of closing the
stable door after the horse had been
stolen. In the present situation
there is not only prospects of as
certaining the facts, but the Legisla-
ture may be expected to make it in
teresting for those who would en-
rich themselves at the expense of a
long suffering public. The impor-
tant thing is to ascertain who is at
fault. 1t is possible that the mine
owners may be able to make q plaus-
ible defense; it is within the realm
of probability that the coal dealers
may be able to justify the increase.
They are entitled to their day in
court, but in the meantime the
people of Pennsylvania may very
properly. place themselves in the
place of the man from Missouri.
They should demand the proofs.
The amazing part of this proposed
increase in the price OF coal is that
it comes at the end OF one of the
mildest winters in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant at a time when
consumption has materially decreas-
ed and when thousands of the min
ers have been placed on Short
time" for WANT of work. Well may
Governor Sproul exclaim that he is
at q loss to understand the COM
mercial or economic justification
for increasing the price. Rightly, too,
he calls attention to the fact that
the increase Is to be imposed at a
time when the efforts of patriotic
people everywhere are being strain
ed toward restoring the price of liv-
ing to a normal basis, and to stab
ilize labor conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
. ROF. Vittorio Emmanuele Or
lando, who, as premier of Italy.


is guarding his country's inter
estS at the peace conference, has
proved his right to a place among
the worlds greatest national lead
ers. Assuming the reins of govern
ment in 1917, at n time when the
Italian Army was fleeing before the
Austrians, when it had lost in three
days what it had spent eighteen
months in acquiring, Premier Or
lando saved his country from the
ignorminous defeat the Alpine de-
bacle seemed to portend.
1t took courage to attempt the
reorganization of the army and the
rehabilitation of the home morale.
patton in a government which, at
that time it appeared, would be
forced TO be a party to a shameful
peace. 1t was only by colossal eff
fort that the premier succeeded in
forming his cabinet, but when he
finally announced it to the king, his
coalition administrative body con-
tanned the strongest men of all par
ties. among them Sonnino, in whom
those who doubted the capabilities
of the premier had boundless faith.
Once Rcvilcd as Pacifist
His success was all the more diff
worthy, by reason of the storm
which a few weeks before had ragged
about him as minister of the inter-
ior. Nationalists and anneXationists
reviled him as n pacifist colleague
of the neutralist Socialist leader,
Giolitti. in whose cabinet he had
served from 1903 to 1905 as minister
of public instruction, and some went
so far as to denounce him as a
traitor. Needless of this clamor, he
accepted the kings commission to
organize Il coalition cabinet His
task was to save q defeated nation,
and the turn in the tide which in
time engulfed Austria, is proof of his
success.
Even while impugning his patriot
ism and courage, none of his oppo-
nents could challenge his ability as
n leader or his intelligence as a
statesman OF that his record was
indisputable proof. At %, he had
been made professor of constitu-
tional rights in sthe University of
Palmero, from which he had just
graduated and after holding that
chair for ten years, he had been
elected to the Chamber of Deputies
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
WHERE THE BLAME LIES

THE other day a railroad man
said: THE trainmen are pretty
sore because Senator Penrose
and Senator Knox helped prevent
Congress from passing the railroad
appropriation bill which the Presi-
dent wanted put through"
Our friend was mistaken. Neither
Senator Penrose nor Senator Knox
had anything to do with the failure
OF Congress to pass the railroad bill
The Republican caucus refused to
have anything to do with the filbus-
ter that killed this measure. Both
Senator Knox and Senator Penrose
would have voted for the railroad
bill If it had not been talked to death
by few Senators who should have
known better.
And if President Wilson is as
anxious about railroad legislation as
he pretends to be. the way lies open.
All he has to do is to call a special
session of Congress and it will be a
law in ten days.
Why does he not do so?
Because he is playing the same
kind of vicious, partisan politics as
the few wilful Senator'S who killed il.
The President is just as much to
blame as any Senator for the plight
in which the railroads, and conse-
quently the railroad men as we'll as
the country-at-large, find themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
BUSINESS OR BUST

.NE LIES of editorials and special
VI articles have been written
about the possibilities of
Pennsylvania In regard to agricul-
ture and the grand opportunities
have been dinned into the ears of
thousands and thousands from
platform and pulpit, train steps and
box beside the grocery stove. The
farmer has been farnied and the
theorist has wasted money.
The outline OF the bill to reorgan-
ize the Department Of Agriculture,
just issued, shows that the Sproul
administration intends to apply that
eminent business sense with which
the Governor is credited to making
the department devoted to food pro-
duction of real use. He would take
up lost motion and abolish the mon
ologist for whom the passing years
mean nothing. Starting in with the
daDartment administration Itself ha
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Intercomnunity Planning

Those familiar with the communal
difficulties that developed during the
war will be disposed to support any
proper measure in the Legislature
that will allow Philadelphia, Ches-
ter and Bristol to join in a scheme
extending the jurisdiction of the To-
cal Department of Public works
within a specific zone outside of
Philadelphia county. This is a
pressing need that is absolutely
above politics and grows out of the
eamplex interrelations of the inter-
locked industrial and municipal in
terests of the philadelphia district"
LedRer.<
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Gorge Wharton Pepper, the
Philadelphia lawyer, has just cele-
brated a birthday.
Representative John r. K. Scott
takes pride in the hay yield from his
Montgomery county farms.
e. T. Stotesbury, the banker,
has just been elected head of the
Temple Iron Company.
Thomas Lowry, the miners
leader, is out for reelection as head
of the miners of the Scranton dis
trict.
Congressman e. r. Kiess, of
Williamsport, was here on Saturday
on his way from Washington and
is much interested in the new road
program.
e. S. Bayard, the Pittsburgh live
stock journal editor, is expected to
be prominent in management of
State Department of Agriculture af-
fairs, relative to that industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Frances Heroic Dead

Paris, according to a dispatch from
that city. is divided in matter OF
sentiment touching the memory of
Frances heroic dead. There is talk
of laying out cemeteries in the battle
fields. to be plains of Silence" but
others prefer that "the fields be
planted with trees to grow irto
mighty forests as an everlasting mon
ument to the dead OF the great war"
We believe the high feeling for
beauty, coupled with sound sense.
both qualities so highly develored
in the French. and finally move them
to favor the second OF the two sur-
gestions.-Philadelp Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
A Cause For Grievance

The late Nat Goodwin's many mar
riages became a joke even in the
much married theatrical profession.
AT the Lambs Club Willie Collier
one day asked Goodwin anxiously:
Have 1 offended you. Nat?"
"Why, no." replied the astounded'
Goodwin. What do you mean?"'
"Well,r responded Collier. with an
injured air, you never invite me to
any of your weddings - From the
San Francisco Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
BLESS THEM!

I like such talk
AS Herbert Widdy's;
He never calls
His kids his "kiddies."
JARED BEAN.
7 lift my lid
To Hazel Hughes;
She never wears
Two -colored shoes.
A girl hate
: Is Carrie Wells;
She says: 'I'll never
Tell" And tells.
-. Bs.
From New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
NeW Tank Insignia

The Tank Corps
shoulder badge is
in the form of a
triangle composed
of three equal
sections of red,
blue and yellow,
respectively. The
reason assigned
for its adoption
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

was that the corps combined the
functions of artillery, infantry and
cavalry. This insignia supersedes
an earlier one designed in the
image and likeness Of the tank
itself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
Making Prayer Efficdcious

Therefore, ] say unto you, what
things soever We desire, when ye pray.
believe that ye receive them. and ye
shall have them. - Mark ii, "a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

No beer, no work, may sound
striking, but it, will come up against
the much older law, no work, no
bread" From the San Francisco
Chronicle
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
DO YOU KNOW
That Dauphin county used
to be a big sheep raising county
and it made money at it, too?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

HISIOItIO ItEfItItIoDOIkU
Extensive use of ferries over
the Susouehanna at this point
ended just about 100 years ago be-
cause of the construction of the
first Harrisburg bridge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

Members OF the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

When the fight begins toithin him
self mans icorth something-RoB-
ERT BROWNING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

proposes to put 1t on a business
plane and give 1t the funds to make
itself essential. The alternative is
spelled abolition"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
DIR. SCHAEFFER

MYTH the death of DR.. Nathan
" c. Schaeffer, State Superin-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17
"No Work, No Bread"

From New York Tt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

Governor Sprouts State art
commission plan is meeting with
general editorial support in the
State. some of it quite enthusiastic
The Philadelphia Ledger. which had
had some adventures with Art Com.
missions in Philadelphia, favors the
plan, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-17

Appointment of Charles H.
Kline and Stephen Stone to the Allie
gheny county bench is commended
by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Time es
editorially.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-10-25
WOULD BE FRIEND IN NEED
Grateful CoIored Man Promised to
Co II Services Should
Be Needed.

'"The race riots in Chicago remind
me of the same sort of excitements
that ran around Atlanta when | was
living there rs n young man." said
George Mcdaniel of Metro, Cal. re-
Gently.
"My brother and ] were both medi-
cos-owners Of smooth and virgin
shNpskins. We shared the same Of
fee and Iunchcd Mt the same counter.
In the midst of wild confusion, one
day, n wounded negro rushed into our
Office and begged for protection. This
was freely granted. for we had no
race prejudices, in spite Of our South
ern upbrnging We also poured salve
on the negro's bruises.
ago shuah been good to me. said
the grateful darkey. turning to my
brotber-who. by the way. Is now
practicing in Los Angeles--'an' I'll
member 1t. doc. Say, II yo' ever kills
anybody nah friends and I'll get you
out II we have to bust the jail to do
It, LOS Angeles Times.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-10-25
NO LONGER MISTRESS OF SEAS
Great Britain's Supremacy Passing
Into New Hands, Says Ma
val Expert.

Tn Grent Britain fear Is being felt
that the trident of the ocean Is pass
ing into new hands. This Mt least Is
the note sounded by Archibald Hurd
the naval expert. writing in the Lon
don Daily Telegraph.
ut Is an arresting fact" he says
that. judged by the strength of Its
battle squadrons In active commits
sion, this country's supremacy has at
least temporarily passed away.
"The United States has now in com
mission 81 battleships. and Washing
ington plans to have 20 next year, the
reduction In number being balanced
by the increased power Of some Of
the ships now approaching compile.
ton.
1--WE have In a similar state of read.
mess % battleships and five cruisers
and. in accordance with the order
published with reference to reduction
to reserve basis, our instantly ready
battle force will fall at an early date
to 10 ships, 10 of them forming the
Atlantic fleet and the other six cruising
In the Mediterranean. 1t may be some
what of an affront to our nationa
pride that we should have reached this
secondary position at sea-"
Mr.. Hurd consoles himself with thu
reflection that the British admiralt,
Is saving money.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-10-25

straight lines are emphasized by small
tucks at each side Of the coat. but n
narrow belt Of the material adjusts
them to the figure In way that Is
easy and smart.
In the suit at the right there Is n
revelation Of the liking for fancier
designs In tailored clothes. Oddities
of cut, with new fabrics and new col
ors, make strong appeal to individ-
ual taste and account for many I'M
usual designs. Duvetyn. peachblow,
velours and similar cloths are favored
for suits Of this character, and trico-
tine is best liked for the palmer mod
els, although this Is no hard-andfast
rule. Brown, taupe, reindeer, dark
green, besides navy, are fashionable
colors with which collars and cuffs Of
seal or beaver. squirrel and kolinsky
look particularly well. In the suit
shown here Hudson seal makes deep
cuffs and choker that will justify the
added expensiveness of furs. which is
considerable this year, by doing duty
with other costumes. Very small tucks
and very large buttons invite consid-
GRAFTON as a trimming.