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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
PUNISH THEM

@UBLIC sentiment will support
any steps which may be taken
by the park authorities to pro-
tect the rest places and recreation
spots from the vandals who seem
to find their chief pleasure in de-
stroying shrubbery and otherwise
despoiling what the people have paid
for and which they have right to
expect will be protected.
We fear that there is a too preva-
lent notion that the young despera-
does VIII odestroy public property
are merely getting rid of surplus
energy. Perhaps a large municipal
wood pile, with saws and axes, to
which they might be sent by the
magistrates of the city, would pro-
vide a better outlet for any excess
nervous force which is now being
expended in breaking light STAN
dards, smashing park seats and de-
stroying the plants and vines which
are the property of the people.
Weak policies in the punishment of
these young miscreants are respon-
sible for the increasing disregard
of regulations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
ONLY A PART

~ OVERNOR WILLIAM C.
II SPROUL seems to have ex-
pressed the feelings of many
people of Pennsylvania as we'll
as his own when he said that
the Philadelphia controversy should
not be perm led to interfere
with the whole legislative pro-
gram of this session. He re-
marked that there are sections of
the keystone State which are not
interested in the Philadelphia char
ter bills to the exclusion of all else
and that they also expect something
from the General Assembly of 1919.
The Governor has u terse way of
saying things. He has expressed the
sentiment of the State. Everyone
would like to see conditions COM
planned of in Philadelphia corrected
for the good of the greatest num-
ber, but the session is nearing the
end of the fourth month and many
things have been sidetracked while
the Quaker City row is aired. There
does not seem to be much reason
for any more hearings and the de-
mand of the State is unquestionably
for action on Philadelphia bills, just
as years ago the sentiment was for
getting Pittsburghs troubles ironed
out without involving the represent
atives of the whole Commonwealth.
The contending forces do not seem
to be able to agree on anything.
They should go to the mat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
STATE REPORTS ON TINE
philadelphia Bulletinl


A last a bill has been passed which
might have been entitled one ''to en-
able the citizens of Pennsylvania to
discover what their authorities are
doing" Actually it provides that
there shall be only biennial reports
of various departments, bureaus and
commissions, but that the text shall
be sent to the Governor by the first
of June in each odd-numbered year.
and after printing to be distributed
only on his order.
This will accomplish two things.
In the first place, there will be econ
omy, which is now becoming a vir-
tue. In the second place, official
reports of Pennsylvania will begin to
have some contemporary value. I'm
der past conditions reports were usu-
ally as dead as Hector by the time
they were published, and an amazing
amount of useless volumes were
printed only to find their way to the
junk-heap.
Governor Sproul intends a good
deal more than the law specifies. He
expects officials to be prompt and
concise in their reports, and he is
not going to waste ink and paper.
Pennsylvania has a number of excel
lent agencies at work concerning
which the public knows nothing. Re-
ports come late and are ignored by
newspapers as lacking news value.
But the Governor, who is news
paperman, one of his private avoca-
tions, is aware that with intelligently
directed industry there can be pub
lished almost any document or book
in a short time, provided there is
first the willing mind. The latter
has been lacking. The law now sup
plies an impetus and the Governor
must do the rest, A little of this
Sproul idea at Washington also,
would accomplish miracles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
GRATING ON PAPERS

THE Railroad Administration in
asking the newspapers of the
country to publish free of
charge all the numerous changes of
freight rates that are constantly be-
ing made is attempting what amounts
to little better than graft on the
press of the country.
There is no news in these sched-
ules of general interest, unless it be
that the new tariffs are nearly al
ways up and almost never down.
The new schedules are just as much
advertising as the change of prices
in commodities which the depart
ment store advertises and for which
it pays generously.
During the war, and for every
proper patriotic purpose since, the
newspapers of the United States,
without exception, have given gen.
erously of the only product they have
to sell-advertising space. They
have never hesitated to give away
their product while men in other
lines of business are receiving high
prices for war contracts. But when
the Railroad Administration, after
squandering money like water in all
directions, tries to graft a column
or two of space every week from the
newspapers the time has arrived for
the papers to say no, and say it so
that they will be understood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
The Lithuanian Language

In richness of vocabulary the
Lithuanian language is only equaled
by the English. Many of its sew
enty-five thousand words are almost
identical with the corresponding
Greek, Latin or Sanskrit words. So
we'll have some of the primitive
characteristics of the language been
preserved in the undisturbed back
waters of Lithuania that, if it were
possible for the Romans and Greeks
to rise from their graves, they would
it is said. have little difficulty in un-
derstanding whole sentences as
spoken by the Lithuanians to-day,
while these could just as easily un-
derstand some of the phrases of the
Sanskrit. The language seems to
have nothing in common with the
Slavic or German. Although the
Lithuanians were surrounded for
centuries by Russian, German and
Polish influences, they managed to
preserve their speech in its original
purity.-From the Detroit News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
MAKING THE DIRT FLY

HlGHWAY CoMMI ssIoNE R
LEWIS S. SADLER is receiv-
- ing many gratifying responses
TO his inquiry as towhat steps are be-
ing taken by firms awarded State
main highway construction contracts
to advance their work, and there is
every indication that Governor
Sproul has more than made good
on his prediction last January that
dirt would be flying on the roads
of Pennsylvania before summer.
The magnitude of the Keystone
State road building program is lit
tie realized by the average Penn
sylvanian. This State has embarked
upon the greatest enterprise of the
kind in the Union and is going at
the rebuilding of hundreds of miles
of road with all the permanence
that experience and skill can bring
and all the expedition taught by
war emergencies. First and last it
will spend $150,000, 900 in the next
three and half years. and Commits
sioner Sadler says it will build roads
that will last.
One of the advantages which the
State will enjoy will be that it has
let contracts to some of the best
equipped and reliable firms engaged
in so-called heavy engineering and
construction work in Pennsylvania
and in adjoining States. These peo-
pie have already started to begin
work although they only signed
contracts a short time ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
SALVATION ARMY DRIVE FOR
A HOME E-SERVICE FUND"
From the Literary Digest

amt much to write, so / didn't hear
nothin' while / was on the other side
about that club o. yourn, and l says
to myself, says I, IT'S sure a pity
If, seein' all they're doin' for us boys,
the Salvation Army has had to give
up what they done at home.'"
The clubs fiourishing, and SOS
the. settlement house and the kin
dergarten. and everything at "a
Cherry street, the worker answered,
and happy grin welled up under
the perspiration on the lads face
as he ~hitched his haversack and tin
hat and other burdens to a more
comfortable position and passed on
with his pals.
That colloquy just shows the spe-
cial charm of the Salvation Army
and the reason for the hold it has
on the masses-no red tape, no
standoffishness, no side just SIM
pie friendliness and the desire to
serve, and the wit to serve in the
most practical and needed way
! While they were braving shot and
shell and bombs and poison-gas to
carry comforts to the boys on the
Hindenburg line they didn't neglect
to give encouragement to the moth
ers in Cherry street-and goodness
knows that if ever any one needed
encouragement it is housewives in
Cherry street. Down in that street
which was once the most aristo-
cratic part of the town, where the
beauX and bellies of Colonial times
disported themselves, where the best
families lived, as some of the beau
tiful carved woodwork that still re-
mains here and there in the old
houses though sadly battered at
tests-there are now great poverty,
great overcrowding, large families
, huddling in one fiat, and taking in
boarders at that.
"And the babies! In one year the
! Cherry Hill Settlement Day Nursery
cared for IA 900 babies, whose moth
ers go out to work, who but for the
Salvation Army would be locked in
at home alone, or left to the mercies
of brothers or sisters hardly old
enough to look out for themselves. "
The Cherry Hill Settlement work
for mothers, while another home
looks after young women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
A TrdinlOdd of Tragedy

Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith in the
Youths Companion.
The last convoy that I saw at
Evian (the French border town
where the civilians from the terri
tory occupied by the Germans were
repatriated) was one of children,
three or four hundred of them. many
quite young. Most of their mothers
were held in Germany. They were
ema ciated beyond belief.
] joined a girl about Is years old,
with terrible calm about her. There
was a golden halo of hair round her
head; she had gentle, sweet man
ners and voice. 1 longed to put my
arm around her and try to make
her a girl again, but that was i'm
possible. There was another girl of
II, l should say, with a beautiful
face, but she was quite crazy. A
number of the children were lying
in the train waiting for burial. They
were mostly girls between 15 and
IS, and perhaps it is for the best that
their troubles were at an end.
A French officer. with a look of
intense agony in his face, distracted
my attention from the children.
stopped beside him. What is it?"
asked almost involuntarily. MY
wife has just died in the enemy's
hands. also my girl of II at last.
Thank God! Three times 1 have
been here to meet my boys, whom I
have not seen for four years. They
were and years old then, and to-
day" he paused, with a look of
horror in his face. Not dead?"
asked, feeling / could not stand the
answer. No; but they do not know
me, their father whose soul yearns
for them | thought | was prepared
for everything the enemy could do
to me, but this is unbearable." And
he broke into .convulsive weeping.
completely unnerved-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
Will We See 1t Through.

Did you read what that Kansas
City sergeant said when he landed in
New York yesterday about the way
the men on the transport felt when
they first saw the light of America?
There wasn't yell or a cheer.
You can't yell when your heart feels
like it's going to bust. We'd been
out there and we'd been smashed up
and we did some smashing our
selves-and when we glimpsed the
home lights-well. we knew that
stuff was over forever. Suppose
some of 'em did blubber a little.
Who Wouldn't"
Who wouldn't?
And who wouldn't back up the fell
lows like Sergeant Eisel? Who
wouldn't see the job through with
his dollars as they did with their
lives?
Will Kansas City go over the top
this week? Wen say so! = Ex-
change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
KEEPING TAB

The boss is keeping tab, my son,
He marks out out every curve;
And if you do not earn your mon,
You'll get what you deserve;
If you are sprightly only
When your weekly wage you grab,
You'll shortly join the jobless men
The boss is keeping tab.
Perhaps you fool around at night,
And paint the village red,
When you'd be wiser sleeping tight,
In your nice feathered bed;
When you are dead upon your feet,
When you to duty go;
You make a snail look pretty fleet,
Your moments are so slow;
Your eyes look like a total loss,
You have a taste that's drab;
You cannot put such things across
The boss is keeping tab.
Perhaps your thoughts have roamed
afar
From work you ought to do;
You're thinking of some movie star
Who made a hit with you,
Or of a joy-ride you will take,
When this sad day is done;
Or of shady way to make
A little bunch of mon;
Or of a large planked tenderloin,
That you at night will stab;
Twere better far to earn your coin
The boss is keeping tab.
And then, perhaps, on the other
hand,
You're working like old Jo;
You're hustling round to beat the
band,
To make the business grow,
And there is vigor in your walk,
Your movements are not dead;
You do not pause to watch the clock,
And count the hours ahead.
Success for you is looming plain;
Some big prize you will nab.
The worker does not work in vain
The boss is keeping tab.
edward A. Taylor, Ship Worker,
IN the Harlan News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
SON OF HIS FATHER

CAPTAIN ARCHIBALD ROOSE-
WELT, fighting son of the late
Colonel Roosevelt, will make
himself as thoroughly disliked by
President Wilson and Secretary
Baker as was his illustrious father
before him, if he isn't more care
full. Captain Roosevelt went through
the fiery furnace of France. where
he was wounded. He writes for
Everybody's Magazine an article on
the unpreparedness of even the reg
ular army when we went to war
results of his own observations in
the training camps at home and
from Paris to the fighting front in
France. The young officer does not
mince words. Indeed, the terseness
of his sentences and the vigor of his
language compare very favorably
with those of the elder Roosevelt at
his best. However, it is not for liter
ary style that the article is remark
able, but for its highly instructive
text.
Precisely what such men as Col
onel Roosevelt and General Wood
told us would happen in the event of
war did happen, the writer tells
us. Thousands of soldiers were
sacrificed by the pacifists in our
government-thos bloody priests of
inefficiency," he says. For two years
previous to the declaration of war
by Congress it was apparent to
thousands of clear thinking Ameri-
cans that sooner or later we would
have to get into the conflict. Yet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Speaker Robert S. Spangler has
been named on the committee to
welcome York veterans.
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell will
be given a reception by Philadelphia
Sons of the American Revolution
this week.
Colonel Fred Taylor Pusey.
Ouartermaster of the keystone Die
vision, used to be a member of tho
Governors staff. He was quarter
master of the division on Mexican
border service.
Frank Wilbur Main, auditor o4
the Pittsburgh Chamber of Cons
merce, has been made a member OF
the national committee on auditing,
The Rev. DR.. S. Hall Youngk
who may be the next Presbyterian
General Assembly moderator, is
native of Butler and now living on
the Yukon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
Roosevelt on Liberty Loans

Long after this war is over, we
shall continue in the struggle to
achieve liberty for all mankind. TO
do it effectively, we must bind our
selves together as a nation, and
there is no surer bond between a.
man and his country than that he
shall be bondholder of his country"
ITO own bonds 70 of the United
States is a badge of honor"
There should be Liberty Bonds
in every home in America"
Il appeal most earnestly to the
men and women of America to lend
their money to the government, and
to do it now!" II,
II myself have invested in these
bonds. There is every reason for
buying them. The patriotic reason
is enough. But, in addition, there is
offered the best security in the
world, backed by the credit of the
government and people of the United
States"
"The outstanding and fundamental
need of the government, without
which nothing can be accomplished,
is money, in large sums and small" |"
Let us introduce into the work of
peace something of the spirit our
soldiers introduced into the work of
war"
"I hope you farmers will inlist in
this field with a will. Make it a
peoples loan. Make the terms
"bondholders" and people" inter-
changeable."
BUY Liberty Bonds-the security
is the best in the world"
the financing of the war--and, if
you do, then, do not blame Wall
Street but admit that it is more
patriotic and farsighted than you
are"
"It is the duty of every man and
Of every woman in this country who
can possibly afford to do so to buy
Liberty Bonds"
"All should do their bit in sub
scribing to this loan. Wall Street
has been criticised many times. They
call them bondholders. If the people
of this country don't accept these
bonds, Wall Street will. Let us peo-
pie get them first!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
m HE Tambourine-Girl of the Sal
walton Army has been voted

" HE Tambourine-Girl of the Sal
vation Army has been voted
- about as extensively useless as
charity bazaars in other fields for
raising the necessary funds for the
,Army's work. Commander Evange-
line Booth has decided that her time
is better employed in the day nur-
series that the Army runs; and, be-
sides, the American people have been
educated by the war in quicker and
more effective methods of raising
funds for necessary relief-work. The
salvation Army will soon start a
drive for. the Home Service Fund"
of, 100000, beginning May 10,
and it is going to get it's money by
straight appeals to the public. The
word of every returning soldier is a
guaranty that these appeals will not
be- in vain. The Sun sheds some
light on this forthcoming effort:
Maybe some folk will be asking
why, when the Salvation Army got
a slice from the millions raised by
the United War Charities drive, it
wants more so soon. Well, in the
first place, the slice the Army re-
ceived wasn't very large, considering
the millions of doughnuts and pies
it baked for our boys on the other
side, and the chocolate and coffee
and cigarets and writing paper and
other comforts almost without end
that it provided, not to mention the
personal service of it's workers every
where they were needed, right up to
the front. And in the second place
the work over here that the war
couldn't be allowed to interrupt must
go right on.
AN Italian boy who fought and
earned two wound-stripes with the
troops that helped break the Hin
denburg line faced a Salvation Army
lass who was giving out doughnuts
and hot coffee to some just-landed
men on a Hoboken. pier one day last
week. Say he burst forth with his
mouth full of doughnut, is that club
you had for mothers at "a Cherry
street still goin'? Cause if it amt
my mother is sure awful lonely. She
started goin' there when she couldn't
speak no English hardly, and it was
about all the sociability she had,
those meetin's of yours. My mother
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
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of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
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All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
Paul Tells of Early Unbelief

And I thank Christ Jesus our
Lord, who hath enabled me. for that
he counted me faithful, putting me
into the ministry; who was before a
blasphemer, and a prosecutor, and
injurious; but l obtained mercy, be-
cause did 1t ignorantly in unbeliefs
II Timothy, |, IL and -.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
DO YOU KNOW

Harrisburg mills made steel
for cargo ships during the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Ground was broken for the new
Capitol just 100 years ago this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

Member American
Newspaper Pub
fishers Associa-
tion, the Audit
Bureau of Circu-
lation and Penn
sylvania Associa-
ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

"It is the duty of every man and
of every woman in this country who
can possibly afford to do so to buy
Liberty Bonds"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

"I hope you farmers will inlist in
this field with a will. Make it a
peoples loan. Make the terms
"bondholders" and people" inter-
changeable"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

ITO own bonds 9 Of the United
States is a badge of honor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

DO not let Wall Street monopolize
the financing of the war--and, if
you do, then do not blame Wall
Street but admit that it is more
patriotic and farsighted than you
are"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28

BUY Liberty Bonds-the security
is the best in the world"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-08-25
Editorial Comment
End Of Daylight Saving
portland Exuress)

Tho death knell Of daylight saving
has been sounded and another year
will see the country back to the old
conditions. At this season of the year
for instance. instead of the sun OH
cially going down at 7.35, with daylight
until after s, it win set at 6.a and it
Will be dark at Z. 1t will be severe
blow to the summer resorts for now
with the long evenings places like
Old Orchard. and the other nearby
amusement centers. will not be the at
traction they are today after the night
meal with the long period Of daylight
which follows. When the man in the
shop and the ONCE has to 60 out to his
suburban home in darkness the pleas
ure Of it fades away and he moves back
into the city. That will be the case
next summer with daylight saving no
longer in effect. The hotels in the out
lying districts will suffer because mo-
florists will no longer go out to them In
such large numbers late in the season,
because of the darkness. and the out OF
town people will not come in to the cit
les for the same reason. The majority
Of people do not care about riding after
dark and consequently there will be less
moving about because the average BUSH
ness man will not be able to get away
from his office until nearly sunset.
1t is to be regretted that Congress
was so determined to kill this great
benefit. and it is rather surprising to
find so many Of Names delegation to
Congress marked absent during the
various votes that have been taken on
this important measure. Nobody de-
MES that there are some strong argu-
ments for the repeal of the BILL but.
in this section of the country. at least,
the decided preponderance of opinion is
that daylight saving has been tremen-
dous advantage to the greatest number
OF individuals and interests.