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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-11-13

phl1fp Williamson OF Wateryille
was calling on friends In town Mon
day.
Anyone having items of interest
ch would come under this column
are requested to please give them TO
Miss Florence Jewett.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-11-13
THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Philadelphia, Pal was very weak,
always tired, my back ached, and | felt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
A WINTER KIPONA

THE idea of a Winter Kipona,
advanced by the Rotary Club,
sounds good indeed. Here. il
would seem, is a plan which. prop
erly worked out, ought to give to
Harrisburg a most enjoyable mid
season entertainments, at the same
time arousing interest in the cele-
bration of 1920 and providing a fund
that would go a long way toward
financing the Labor Day celebration.
A Winter Kipona, properly STAGED,
would be we'll worth while as a
community effort, would be educa-
tional from a historical standpoint,
would take into the show people
from every walk of life and thus
become a very democratic influence.
We have much talent in Harrisburg
that never comes to the surface. We
have hundreds of young men and
women who ought to be given an
opportunity to exercise their abili-
ties in community work. It would
be an easy thing to make the Winter
kpona as popular and as enjoy
able as the summer event
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
STANDS FOR KIPONA

IF THE Kipona is to be yearly
event-and. that is a foregone
conclusion-we must have a
greater seating capacity than even
the front steps" afford. It has
been suggested that the city buy
movable stands to be erected along
the river, at any given point, above
the steps to accommodate the peo-
pie who desire to see the events on
the river. Five or ten thousand
more seats could be provided in this
way. If the Harrisburg Navy owns
the stands a small charge for re-
serve seats might be made in order
to cover the cost of purchase. But,
at all events, some means of accom-
modating the sightseers must be
found. AS the years roll by thou
sands of people from other towns
will come to Harrisburg for the big
celebration and a way must be
found to take care of them, not to
mention our own homefolks who
must be first considered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Women as TOilerS
[F'rom the New York SUM

From the New Ork sun
According to the Department of
Labor 100000 women are now
engaged in gainful occupations IN
the United States, a number eSti-
mated by The departm officials to
be about normal" The number of
individuals thus employed may be
taken roughly as something MOI @
than ten per cent. of the popula-
ton.
The great extension of opportuni-
ties for women workers caused by
the war drew many of them to new
tasks, and at present there is con-
plant from large employers that
they cannot hire women in sucn
numbers as they wish.
The lot of the working women
has been greatly improved in recent
years. Legislative enactments for
their protection have reached Il
stage of omprehensiveness in
which some of them feel they are
too much restricted. Laws reguldt-
ing hours and conditions of labor
are constantly subject to revision,
and such revision practically alway s
results in the application of new
rules to prevent the exploitation of
women by greedy, ignorant or carc-
less employers.
The theory that women workers
are commonly anxious to escape
from the necessity of employment is
not borne out by the experience of
most employers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

than usually successful as political
leader.
While he had retired from the
political arena and was living the
life of the open as much as possible,
he was still interested in the doings
of politicians and statesmen, fire.
quently analyzing in the most inter-
esting way the motives and purposes
of those now in the limelight of
political and official activity.
During the recent war he gave
most of his time to those things
which concerned all patriotic citi-
zens and was greatly interested in
the young men of Dauphin county
who had barred their breasts to the
German bullets and maintained the
traditions of the American soldier
on foreign fields. A brave man
himself, he understood bravery in
its best sense and those who in years
that are gone have followed the
trails with him and hunted the big
game of the country will miss a
good comrade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
SUPPOSE PEOPLE STRUCK?
Proftccrs Would


But might not the people he drives
to a point where they might organ
ize and go on strike? Soldiers in
the American Civil War som etimes
found themselves in a situation
where it became necessary for a
time to live on half rations. They
did it. They didn't mutiny, throw
down their guns and go on Il strike"
They remained in ranks and did
their duty as soldiers. While they
We're fed less. on half what they had
been allowed, but they didn't starve.
If the people should go on "a
strike" if they should agree they
would live on half rations for a
season, the hoarders and profiteers
would be bereft of profits, what they
! have hidden would suffer loss and
they would come down from their
! lofty perch.
The people have not come to that
yet, although many of us are now
finding a whole ration on our tables,
we are not agreed upon an organ
aized strike. But we do demand laws
with teeth in them concerning the
offending profiteers. If they will not
| listen to reason, if they are blind to
| humanity, teach them a lesson by
| housing them behind bars in prison
cells.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Finding The Normal LeDel
[From the Lancaster Examiner ]

[From the Lancaster EXaminer.l
America is blessed" to-day with
a fifty cent dollar" Back in 1896,
under the leadership of the boy
orator" with the eternal grape juice
smile, over six million voters wanted
a fifty cent dollar. This plan was
Il great panacea for all the ills of
the world. To-day those same six
million voters can look about them
and think about the millennium that
they almost created at that. time,
/ their millennium come true.
But even the fifty cent dollar of
to-day does not have all the evils
that would have attended it in 1896.
For the change came more slowly
and the people had greater oppor-
tunities to become accustomed to it.
But as it is to-day it works great
and unfair hardships on many
fixed incomes, the salaried men and
women, and the thrifty people sur
fer. The protiteers, gamblers and
spectators win. Indeed the stand
of the goldmen of twenty-three
years ago is indicated. A fifty cent
dollar is a curse, and the world is
striving blndly, wildly, vainly to get
back to the old basis.
For business men the times are
good. But they are not nor
mally good times. We are still go
ing on an exalted war basis. Every
thing = wage scales. taxation rates,
material and merchandise prices.
/ operating costs. credit, tendency to-
ward lavish expenditures, reckless
ness - all these factors are still
high. They have not left the war
level, and so while business takes
on new activity it finds war condi-
tions still to be met conditions
/ which will ultimately mean a crash
somewhere.
We must abandon this level of
war prosperity - not suddenly, but
carefully, consistently, cautiously
and inte'ligently We want good
times to continue. We do not want
n panic, with a sudden crash, fol-
lowed by quick drops and slow rises
We want a gradual REIMBURSEMENT
of the old war level, and an even
more gradual finding of the new
peace level, the level of peace and
prosperity. This is bound to be
somewhat above the old one of 1914
but it will be far below that which
| exists to-day. 1t will be one on
which business can thrive and the
world find an equitable readjust-
ment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Seek Kruger'S Treasure

To recover more than SS,OOO,OOO
in gold, part of the fortune of the
late Dom Paul Kruger, once Presi-
dent of the Transvaal, which is be-
lieved to be cemented in the hold
of the bark Dorothea, sunk on
Tenedos Reef off the coast of Zulu
land, is one of the projects which
may be revived as result of i'm
provement in the science of salvag-
ing sunken ships.
The Dorothea is named among the
list of wrecks of eight treasure ships
located off the African coast which
are regarded by one leading expert
as most likely for salvage. IT is be-
lieved that Kruger's fortune still lies
in the bottom of the Dorothea
among the jagged rocks of Tenedos
Reef.
The gold is reported to have been
shipped some time prior to 1904 by
Kruger, who was once credited with
fortune of S3,750.000. Some years
ago a syndicate was organized to at
tempt its recovery and a Govern
ment steamer, the Alfred Noble, was
sent to do the work of salvage, but
failed.
Now that the war is over, men
not content with The ordinary lC.
wards of peace time industry are
planning to renew the great adven-
ture of seeking to salvage golo from
the wrecks OF treasure ships long
since lost. The science of salvag-
ing sunken vessels has reached the
point where some experts believe
the next few years will see much of
the tabled wealth of the oceans bed
brought to the surface. Wrecks OF
treasure ships lost more than 100
years ago are being located and
preparations are being made to
bring ingots of precious metal to
the surface.
Captain A. P. GARDINER, a salvage
expert, has located thirty-eight hulls
of sunken vessels off the coast of
South Africa and believes that one
quarter of them may be redeemed.
Eight of the ships selected as sus-
ceptible of salvage, with their loca-
ton and value of contents, are given
as follows:
The Grosvenor, on the Pendoland
Coast, SS,750,000: Ariston, Marcus
Bay, S4,00O,00O; Birkenhead, Birk-
enhead Reef. S3,90O,OO0; Atlas. East
Coast, $3,50O,0OO; Dorothea, Tene-
dos Reef, s3,250,000; ThunderboIt
Thunderbolt Reef, $2,75O. 900; Aber-
crombie, Black Rock, 10000 and
Merestein, Jutton Island, $70O.0OO
A second list of ships still Turing
the treasure hunters to the African
Coast includes seven wrecked in
1902, among them being H. NJ. S,
Candos with 100000 in gold coin
and the troopship Addison with
100000. Others carried copper, a
hold full of ivory or silver ingots
Ten other vessels lost between 1871
and 1898 have been definitely To-
Gated along the African sands, with
the following wealth:
Five thousand bars of silver and
copper; thirty boxes of gold and sill
Yer; $500 bars of silver; 200 tons
of copper; $500 bars Of copper; A.
500 bars of tin: 100 silver and
copper bars; 1880 bars of silver:
$50 bars of tin. and another shin
with still another big tin cargo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Thanks For Peace
BY Frances Marian Mitchell

BY Frances Marian Mitchell
1.-THE Presbyterian
Most gracious Lord, we give Thee
thanks
For all that Thou hast done.
We knelt to Thee in peace appeal,
And vic'try has been won.
1t was Thy will, dear Lord, to still
The Huns dread cannonade;
1t was Thy will to break their ranks
And blunt each cleaning blade.
On Flanders fields our loved ones
Where blood-red poppies bloom
They like the Christ have paid the
price
To save the world from gloom;
They like the Christ were crucitied
For hate and lust and greed,
But now hates metal throats are
still
And all the world is freed.
Most gracious Lord, we give Thee
thanks,
Through Thee our peace was won;
Twas Thee, who at the battles
height,
Smote with defeat the Hun.
And by Thy grace on Flanders fields
Where blood-red poppies grow.
We shall see lilies white and fair
After the winters snow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
FOOLISH TALK

VTTHETHER or not the United
wv States shall adopt the pro-
posed League of Nations plan
is unquestionably an important
question, but when Senator Hitch
cock says its rejection would be
suicidal to the country" he talks
foolishness.
The United States is going to con-
tinue right along doing business at
the old stand, whether or not the
treaty and the league are accepted
or declined. We are the dominant
nation of the world and we shah
continue to be so long as we main
tain our high ideals, work hard and
exercise the common sense which
has been our best trait. We are not
going to commit suicide whatever
we may do about the treaty;
neither are we going to have any
body argue us into accepting 1t by
such idle chatter, and Senatot
Hitchcock ought to be wise enough
to know it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Franklin Had Peace Troubles

Our own philosopher and diplo-
mat, Benjamin Franklin, having
concluded with the English dele
gates the peace which ended the
Revolutionary War with England,
remarked that "the blessing prom
ised to the peacemakers, fancy, re-
lates to the next world; for in this
they seem to have a greater chance
of being cursed" The somewhat
extraordinary series of incidents at
Washington, which in the past three
months repeated much of what
must have happened in the Amcri-
can Congress during 1888, has made
up part of the history of the present
period. 1t might have affected the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
THE SOCIALISTS MEET

T HE Socialist convention in
Chicago very fittingly began
with a free-for-all fight. That
has been its history ever since it
was organized in the United States.
1t has preached international peace
and fought tooth and nail whenever
the opportunity offered.
Just now the party is meeting
behind closed doors. That, in one
respect. is a good thing, since So
cialism has nothing to offer that
may be feared except pernicious
propaganda and would soon die
without its own widely circulated
half truths.
But. the Department of Justice,
at least, ought to know what is hap
pening in those secret sessions, and
probably does. A political party
that cannot hold its meetings in
public has something to hide, and
we have no need for an influence OF
that sort in the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
The Great, Gdunt Trdgedv

Instead of joining the League of
Nations, the United States, Knox
contends, should carry out the spirit
of the act of 1916, which authorized
the President to convene the ma
tions of the world to esta blish a code
of international law, reduce arma-
ments, establish an international
tribunal, land go as far as possible
in the direction of securing peace
through justice, through a league to
which all the world are parties to it's
formation. This would be a fitting,
generous, and dignified exit from q
situation in which primarily we had
no direct concern"
The Pennsylvania Senator said
there was danger the treaty might
prove to be so harsh it would "kill
the goose that lays the golden egg"
by which he meant, he said, that
Germany by all accounts would not
be able to pay the bill rendered her,
and the question would arise how
far her conquerors could afford to
go in enforcing the peace terms.
He criticised President Wilson for
what he termed Withholding from
the Senate information asked con-
cerning the Peace Conference and
other treaties now being completed.
He argued that this secrecy appeared
to indicate that there were things
that must be concealed from the
American people. What those things
were he said he would like to know.
Mr.. Knox expressed qualification
that the Senate debates had de-
veloped many facts regarding the
treaty of which the public, which
had not read or digested the whole
vast document, would otherwise
have been kept in ignorance. 1.-THE
people now may finally hope" he
said, ito see the whole of the great,
gaunt tragedy into which those
whom they had charged with pro-
tecting them were about to betray
them"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
Knor LndictS the Treatg
TPhiladelpbia press


Senator KnoX's speeches on the
Peace Treaty have been marked by
signal ability and great logical force.
His first two speeches attacked the
Covenant with the keen insight and
clear analysis of n great lawyer. Yes
terday's speech examines the treaty
from the standpoint of the states
man and unfolds the difficulties that
it creates and the entanglements
which it involves in a way and with
a completeness that has not been
done before. The thick thin
supporters of the engagements which
the United States undertakes in this
treaty will find their zeal slacken
and their affection for the treaty
grow cool as they read Senator
Knox's damaging examination of the
treaty and the grave obligations that
it imposes on the United States If 1t
becomes party to it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

TN these latter days, with the cost
of food high and higher, strikes
are growing in number A strike
reduces production, a reduction of
production is a reduction of supply,
with demand greater than supply
comes additional cost, it costs more
to live, and so it goes on, ad finitum.
What are the people to do 1t
is assumed that the masses are at
the mercy of the classes. The classes
may be temporarily benefited. They
are not troubled in consequence of
less production. They assume that
the less they have the more they
will get for it, the bulk will be less,
it will be easier handled and stored.
Children crying for bread would he
music TO their ears.
The professional protiteer, with a
heart and soul stepped in aVarice,
he smiles at the act of any class that
will reduce supply. The only out
standing feature of his Improbable
life is that of inhumanlty. He cares
nothing about empty stomachs or
scantily clothed bodies so long as
he has 4 fat purse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
A VETERAN RETIRES

WITH the retirement of William
w H. Henderson veteran ticket
agent at the Union Station,
another of the men who did much
to develop the Pennsylvania Rail-
road from a one-track, wood-burn-
ing road into the standard railroad
of the world, leaves active service.
No official order was ever necessary
to induce Mr.. Henderson or the men
who worked with him to be kind
and courteous to the patrons of tie
line, and they not only made friends
for the company but for themselves.
Mr.. Henderson is a fine type of the
old school railroadmau and hum
dreds of those who have been happy
to call him friend will regret his
retirement, while they join in wish
ing him a long enjoyment of The
rest he has earned by more than
a half century of faithful service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
PRESIDENT GOES WEST

~ RESIDENT WILSON has gone
dresses on the Importance of
the League of Nations to the United
States. If he is no more specific
in his speeches than he has been
in his public statements since re.
turning from abroad he will re.
turn to Washington with the people
no wiser than they are at present
concerning the Presidents views as
to the effects of the league plan
upon the nation. 1t is to be hoped
he will speak freely and set his
case fully before the people in or
der that the leagues opponents WHO
follow him may have concrete facts
and statements upon which to base
their arguments. and the public be
fully informed.
But whether Mr.. Wilson talks IN
metaphor or plain language,
whether he deals with theories o.
practical applications of the league
principles, the public is bound to
get some new light on the treaty
and its attendant proposals, and 1t
is likely that a sharp division OF
opinion will follow, with the result
that we shall shortly know more
about the country's feeling with re-
spect to the treaty than we do now.
But if the President wants TO help
his own cause, he will have to say
much more than he has yet said N
defense of it. The American people
are from Missouri" and they want
to be shown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
WILLIAM B. MEETCH
VTY LILLIAN B. MEETCH COM
wv bined some unusual elements

w Dined some unusual lei elements oents
in his personality and his
passing is sincerely regretted by
those who knew him best. He was
a student, a philosopher, :, keen
business man, one OF the most en-
thusiastic of the big game hunters
of America. AS school teacher,
county official, lumber operator, SOL
dier and political leader, he COM
bined many different traits of char
acter. No one who knew Mr.. Meetch
could doubt the quality of his cour-
age and while he had bitter political
opponents, he never betrayed the
slightest fear, but always treated
with scorn suggestions of his friends
that this or that course of action
might involve personal loss, political
prestige or physical encounter.
His frequent encounters with the
American grizzly, the Alaskan bear
of enormous size and his thrilling
and hazardous trips In the wilds of
this country and Mexico called for
great physical endurance. and while
always a slight man he was like tenn
pered steel in overcoming the perils
and the strain of many a hazardous
trail In the wilds of the Rocky
Mountains and the hunting areas OF
Canada.
books and of history; he was a
reader of men and because he un-
derstood human nature he was more
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

France has purchased at bargain
price of s40o,OO0.O0O all the property
of the American Expeditionary Force
in that country. This purchase covers
docks. wharves. railroads. ware
houses, refrigeration plants. barracks,
surplus clothing, motor equipment and
munitions. France is entitled to any
advantage in such a transaction and
tEa American people will approve the
sale without question.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Judgr S. p. Emery was ths
speaker at the homecoming c'ke-
bration for the New Castle soldiers.
The Rev. Richard NJ. Fowh.s.
McKeesport minister, just home from
overseas service has resigned to be-
come connected with the Inter-
Church Federation.
Hiram b. Schoch, former Har-
risburg newspaperman, now oe
Pittsburgh, is home from Y. NJ. c.
A. service in France.
John NJ. Phillips, Pittsburgh
Game Commissioner, is making in
spections of tracts for game pre-
serves.
Ex-senator John M. Jamison, is
taking an active part in the judicial
contest in Westmoreland.
Colonel Joseph II. Thompson,
commander of the 10th, was speak
er at the Washington county recep-
ton to the soldiers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

ideas and expectations even OF fl
nancial markets if the markets had
taken the demonstration altogether
seriously; indeed, it was poss.bl to
show that, if attacks on the treaty
we're likely to defeat the peace, it
was being roughly handled by other
belligerents than the United States.
But even this did not appear to I'M
press either the people or the mar
kets.-AleXander Dana Noyes in The
Financial Situation in the Septem-
Eel Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04
OUR ORPHAN SCHOOLS

VTTE HAD begun to wonder what
w would become of the States
schools Ior soldiers orphans
Now we know. The children of
Civil War veterans will not be out
of them before the boys and girls
OF soldiers who served in the war
with Germany begin to arrive. Scot
land, one of the best of these schools,
already has enrolled one pupil.
Doubtless there is long usefulness
ahead of these industrial schools
which through a half century have
turned out thousands upon thou
sands of men and women who are
the backbone of the Commonwealth
to-day. 1t would have been a dis
tinct loss if the schools had been
forced to close.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-04

Readings mayoralty contest
has attracted much attention be-
cause of it's vigor. The Republicans
claim the party spirit aroused is the
best thing for them and that they
will carry the city at the November
election.