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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. A. V. Crookston, who comes
home in command of one of the
Keystone artillery regiments, was
for years connected with Pittsburgh
units of the National Guard.
Representative G. G. JordG-.N
who arranged the country dinner
for the legislators, was for yeaEa -
active clergyman.
Col. Fred Taylor Pusey, qA
termaster of the Keystone Division,
lives in Delaware county, and prac-
tices law in Philadelphia when he
is not on military service.
Representative James A. Waltz
er, who holds the record for present
ing most bills in the House, is a
Philadelphia attorney, and one of
the best posted men in the Legis-
lature on details of the State Gov
ernment.
Speaker Robert S. Spangler In
commencing to feel the pull OF
Spring weather. He is an ardent
tennis player.
President pro tenn OF the Senate,
c. J. Buckman, is a lawyer, but also
owns farm in Bucks county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Mayor HdnSon's Viewpoint

There's new sentence I'm going
to use in my speeches." he said, "and
it's a good one, really good one
Congress must pass laws whereby
business will know where it's going,
how it is going to get there. and how
long it can stay after it arrives
request that the great government
of the United States defend itself
against the insidious attack of
preachers of force and violence who
are advocating and planning and at
tempting to overthrow this govern
ment. / request their punishment.
I request the deportation, after due
investigation and trial of the sedi-
tious alien. / request the stopping
of all seditious publications in this
country. Liberty does not mean Ii
cense nor does free speech mean
advocacy of the overthrow of our
government by force"
Employees of labor must and will
pay the workers a fair wage, estab-
Iish and maintain good, decent con-
ditions treat labor more like n part
ner, and see to it that every child in
this land receives a useful, first-class
education. Then the world will wit
ness a joining of the hands of labor
and capital, and we will love instead
of hate, seek cooperation instead Of
class war. and the two will unite and
drive from this free country the red
menace which is no menace at all
il we try to practice even in a small
measure to golden rule"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Ninety Millions Wanted

[From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
About S110,000,0O0 have been de-
manded in appropriations from the
Legislature at Harrisburg and the
administration has come to the con-
clusion that nothing less than $780,
900, 600 will suffice during the COM
ing two years. But this is more
than existing laws are likely to pro-
duce, unless abnormal conditions re-
suit, which is not to be expected,
and scme new forms of taxation
must be imposed.
New York settled the matter by
levying an income tax. much
lighter, to be sure, than that of the
Federal Government, which is eX-
pected to save it from deficit. Al
Harrisburg there is no disposition
to do this unless it be the last re-
sort. Not long ago a suggestion to
restore a tax on real estate met with
such a storm of opposition that II
was at once abandoned. Just now
various factors are being considered
but it will take a good deal of in
genuity to produce the Governors
minimum. Even this is a sum which
not long ago would have seemed
colossal.
|, Pennsylvania plight is this, thai
it has committed itself, actually OF
by implication, to the extent oi
nearly all available revenues
Schools. charities. universities and
the administration of State depart.
ments foot up about all it is reason.
able to expect in the way of revenue
If we have q burst of business ac-
tivity in the next two years. the
State income will be larger than is
now anticipated. But should it hap.
pen that we run short of eXpecta-
tions. there would he an intolerable
situation. The constitution is inflex.
ible in the matter of debt and the
recent change affects roads only
Were it possible for the Governor tc
have the same powers of utilizing
credit as the president of any great
private corporation. he might give
himself a little latitude. But under
the law he must cut the garment
of appropriation according to the
cloth provided.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
THE BUDGET SYSTEM

~ENATOR PENROSE strikes a
popular chord when he de-
mands that Congress devise a
budget system for the United States
Government The haphazard man
ner in which millions are spent at
Washington upon the recommenda-
ton of this or that Cabinet member,
or upon the solicitation of members
OF Congress who may have axes to
grind, is little less than criminal.
II Senator Penrose succeeds in the
effort he is about to make in the
coming special session of Congress
he will have rendered the country a
service that will save billions of dol
lars in the next few years and ma
terially reduce Federal taxation to
the individual citizen.
Every two years in the business
OF the United States Government
men who have nothing to do with
its working step in and say to the
man at the head of the department,
You need new post Office building
at Speonk," or You need an army
post at Catcheekoo," and they add
appropriations for these things to
the estimates made by the very man
who Is running the department and
is in the very hest position to know
exactly what the business of the
department requires and what 1t
should afford to spend.
In other words. under our present
system of Government finance. Con-
gress can initiate expenditures,
whereas it should be merely the
trustee" of the peoples money
appropriating 1t for enterprises pro-
posed by the heads of department
and then only when it deems those
enterprises justified and in harmony
with Government economy.
This, Congress cannot do at the
present time because the United
States. unlike Great Britain. France,
Germany. Switzerland and Japan,
has no national budget system.
In these other countries. at stated
periods, the spending department of
the government lays before the ap-
propriating department a statement
OF the government financial condi-
fion, showing capital on hand. assets
liabilities, work proposed to be done,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

cost of the work and income ex-
pected based on the income of the
last year or period of years.
The appropriating department
considers these various factors. bal
nnces them against one another. and.
II the proposed expenses seem ex-
travagant. has the power to curtail
them, usually after affording the
spending department an opportunity
Of defending the estimate or OF cut
ting the estimates themselves where
1t can best be done without dimin-
ishing the efficiency OF the work
in question.
Thus the spending department Is
made responsible for its finances
and accountable for the manner in
which the money is spent. With a
national budget system of our own,
the United States could do the same
thing and abolish the custom OF in
fiating appropriations by Congress,
which would be called upon to re-
view appropriations with the power
of cutting the figure called for, but
not of increasing it
Congress has no power to spend
money or perform work" and 1t is
only rational. therefore, that it should
not have the power to increase ap-
prorriations when the man who is
responsible for performing work
says he does not need the money
and that his department cannot af-
ford to spend any more.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Et, tn, Prune!

Lady, it surely amt any of my
dooin's;
But were gittin' thirty cents a
pound for prooins."
Thou, too, once revered old friend,
For years the loved and now the
lost.
Base, yield ye to the lure OF wealth,
Alliance make with that arch
fiend, Hi Cost.
At boarding place and table d'hote
For ages thou were ever near;
Meek and 1owly seemed thy state;
Too humble, thou, for kingly
profiteer.
Alas! the schemer found thee out,
And now we. strut among the
great,
Thy lesser friends belize forgot.
Left, pruneless, to a sad, sad fate.
No longer theme for TESTERS mirth
No longer boarding mistress
boon;
Lofted to the tables of the rich.
Mark now the naughty, Iordly
prune!
William r. Thornton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Civilization BY Degrees
[John NJ. Springer in World outlool

[John NJ. Springer in World Outlook ]
Heap big chief Mwata Yamvo,
chief of many smaller chiefs in
Africa, rides forth on the shoulders
of his subjects all dressed up in the
bead crown that is the insignia of
his rank and his best royal robe that
has Made in Portugal written
across it in what to Mwata Yamvo
are magic characters.
Civilization is coming to him by
degrees, like the white mans gar
ments. But although he has fore
sworn the witch doctor and begs for
a man with medicine" he still keeps
his hundreds of wives. three of whom
are chosen daily to minister to him.
The great war has brought him a
sight of the white mans aeroplanes
and the sound of his guns. Will the
reconstruction period bring him
schools that will help his boys to a
trade, hospitals that will cure their
bodily ills, and churches where he
can learn of a God who is not a de-
stroyer to be feared but comforter
to be loved?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
QUITE A DIFFERENCE

~ OVERNOR SPROUL has made
r it very clear that an act pro-
hibiting the optional teaching
of German in the schools OF Penn
sylvania- which he recently vetoed,
is a very different measure from one
repeating law requiring official ad-
vertising TO appear in German news
papers As a matter of fact, there
is no more reason for the printing
of official advertising in German
than for the printing of the same
advertising in French, or Protugese,
or any other foreign language.
We are learning to appreciate the
Americanization idea and with the
increase of public instruction on this
line will come a better understand
ing of American ideals and institu-
lions on the part of the foreign
born population.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Going to Church in Japan
[ William Dudley Pelley in World
nnt1onk

William Dudley Pelley in World
Outlook
1t hardly seems a church, the poor
little building 1 know in a Japanese
town. 1t is just a room with a
speakers platform and two rows
of seats. Yet it cost fifteen hun
dred yen, this little building, or seven
hundred and fifty dollars, American
money. And much of that money
was contributed by poor japanese
people to whom twenty-five cents a
day makes much to be desired.
Slowly the new church began to
fill. These Japanese folks come in
quietly, bit timidly. 1t is new
experience for them, this going to
church in their own building. Htth-
erto they have been meeting in pri-
Vate homes.
There is a tall man in flowing
robes, who cannot see very we'll and
whose spectacles are skewed upon
his nose. He was converted when
he was a young man of thirty-four
and in all the time since he has
hoped and prayed for this day
when the Christians of Gorozawa
would have a regular church.
There are young men from the
nearby agricultural school in Amer
lean dress and white collars a bit
wilted and neckties which refuse to
stay in place. There are middle
aged men who might be merchants,
clerks. railroad men-Some in tow-
ing robes, some in foreign costume.
And on every face is intent and pur-
pose. On every face is the mark of
the student.
1t is a very serious thing to be a
Christian out here where ones rela-
tives and customers and townspeo-
pie have all worshipped for so many
generations in another kind of reli-
gion. There is no hitting the traif'
and following the crowd out here.
Every man and woman is a Chris
tian because they have studied the
step which they have taken. They
mean business.
The women come in, and seat
themselves together on the opposite
side of the church from the men.
All of them are in kimonos with the
pillow-like girdles at their backs.
Some of them have children-some
have babies-slung between their
shoulders. They kneel down and
swing the funny little almond-eyed
kids off by loosening the kerchiet
which holds the child in place.
The sermon runs on for an hour.
But nobody falls asleep. Nobody
goes out. The little room holds a
hundred and twenty people and
every eye is riveted upon the speaker,
every ear is attentive not to miss a
syllable of the discourse.
The stiff rough bench with its
straight back becomes very hard to
the foreigner who is used to church
pew with cushions. But these peo-
pie have not come to be entertained.
They have turned to a religion which
is militant, vital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
FRENCH WITCHES
From the London Telegraph. ]

[From the London Telegraph
A Shakespeare travesty is contain
ed in a volume of humorous verse by
L. de Stein. The travesty ID found
ed upon Macbeth with the In
specting general as Duncan, and three
cooks in, place OF the witches. The
cooks have information that the
general will inspect the food pro-
vided for the men, and are III a
fever of excitement to make the soup
appear substantial. Into it they cast
whatever comes handiest.
German sausage won in fight
On some dark and stormy night,
Dim and murky watercress
Stolen from q sergeants mess.
Slabs of cheese and chunks OF ham,
Lumps of plum and apple jam,
Bits of pepper, ends OF string
Mixed with any damned thing,
In the cauldron mingle quick,
So the stew be dense and thick.
Eventually they themselves fall
into the soup, but the adtutant Ia
| conically remarks, They'll not De
| noticed" and the colonel, overcome
by chagrin that the proof of the
cooking is to be in the eating, swal-
lONS al TdtiOh VI tllS potI"5Nt N
dies upon the spot!
A Wordsworth imitation contained
in the volume concerns n French
maiden named Jeanette, in whom are
to be traced all the familiar Words
! WORKMAN virtues, common to the
| ideal feminity of the period:
An innocence that never fears
| To stretch a hand for souvenirs,
And maiden coyness making thee
| Too shy to give them back to me,
A mien that every doubt dispels,
A total disregard for smells,
A shrewd dislike for Sergeant Hggs
/ A partiality for pigs.
And many pretty courtesies
And household virtues such as these
Combine my simple heart to please
We are inclined to think. however
that Mr.. de STEMS original verses
which form the second part of the
volume, are even better than his
parodies. The ode to Bingo, the
trench dog, keeps the exact comedy
between comedy and certain quie
pathos:
Yet who shall say that Bingo was
unblest,
Though all his Sprattless life was
passed beneath
The roar of mortars and the whistl
ing breath
OF grim. nocturnal heavies going
west?
Unmoved he heard the evening hymn
of hate,
Unmoved would gaze into his mas
| ter'S eyes,
For all the sorrows men for mer
| create
In search of happiness wise dog.
despise,
Finding ecstatic joy in every rag,
And every smile of friendship wortf
a wag.
There is genuine humor, too, in thu
story of the sacred" military docu
ments, which were blown up by ;
shell, land yet the war went oi
without a check" and in the Kaiser
reflections upon Canute, who, If h
had only known "the tide woulC
turn at halfpast g." might hav,
worked a miracle to his own eterna
glorification.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Working For the World
New York Times1

New HorK TlmeSl
The winter wheat crops is shown
by the May report to be above the
standard, being 1905 per cent. in
condition on the largest acreage ever
sown. The winter killing was the
minimum, hardly worth mention. a
fraction of million acres aban-
doned where usually there is total
loss of several millions. There was
actual improvement of prospects
where usually there is deterioration.
and there is promise of a winter
crop exceeding both winter and
spring in many good years. The in
dicated crop is 900 bushels,
to which will be added the spring
crop, not yet all planted; and the
guarantee price is $2.26.
Here are two billions and more of
new wealth, which will fill our
banks and railway cars with both
bulk and value. 1t is like gliding
gold to add that the hay crop shows
an increase of 25,000,000 tons, to
make good a shortage of present
stocks of some three million tons,
compared with either of the last two
years. Hay means meat and milk,
which all the world needs, and it is
hardly appreciated even by Wall
street farmers that the humble hay
crop is itself a billion dollar crop.
No longer ago than 1915 the total
value of farm products was but a
little more than ten billion dollars.
Last year the Department of Agri-
culture estimated the value of all
farm products at more than twen-
ty-four billions, gain of three bill
lions over 1917 and more than the
total of our Liberty loans. 1t is pre-
mature to estimate this years in
A L. 4. a
they erred grievously who thought
either that the United States itself
was in danger of hunger by the in
crease of population over crops or
that it would let other nations starye
so long as it had plenty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
TRADE BRIEFS

The greater portion of the coir
fiber imported into South Africa is
used for mattress making.
A discovery of copper is reported
from near Beaudoinville, a port at
the southern end of Lake Tan
ganyika. Belgian Congo. Africa.
An Italian merchant wishes to
purchase hides and skins. furs,
leather. leather goods, dyes for cot
ton and wool and heavy chemicals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
WHITE-WASHING SEASON

-HE Health Department inspect
ors for cleanup week reported
that only a small fraction of the
population of Harrisburg apparently
knows anything about the disinfect-
ing and beautifying qualities of lime.
White-washing, it appears, has be-
come lest art. Yes, we said, art,
and we stick to it. There was a
time when e-washing-Some
hifalutin folks called it calcimining
as as distinctly a part of the du-
ties of housekeeping as cooking, or
baking. or laundry work. That, of
course, was back in those days, not
so far back, either, that you have to
be bald-headed and in your second
childhood to remember them, when
only plutocrats could afford WALL
paper beyond the parlor and the
spare room. Consequently, by way
of mural decorations, it was neces-
sary to give the walls of the rest of
every fly season and again after the
smoky old sitting room heater had
been taken down in the spring.
Twice n year, as regularly as house
cleaning, came the orgy of the
brush and bucket
For the most part the masculine
portion of the family was barred
from participation in this periodical
festival, for it was a we'll demon
strated fact that few men could
manipulate white-wash brush
without streaking the walls and
scattering the floor. There have
been times when we have suspected
that some men were all too ready
TO admit their faults in this direc-
ton, for none of them ever showed
any great enthusiasm for this favor
ite form of indoor sport. But wo-
men-why there were women in
those days who were as proud of
their white-washing abilities as they
were of their first babies or their
newest Easter hats. Hundreds of
them would have considered them
selves disgraced for life if they had
left a streak on the ceiling OF spilled
a drop of lime on the floor.
However, there were u few artis-
tic souls not content with mere
white-washing. These were the FORE
bears and ancestors of the cubist
and futurist artists of to-day. They
mixed all manner of colors with
their lime and decorated in all the
lines of the rainbow. A kitchen
done in bright yellow and dark
blue was not uncommon and pink
and royal purple were general IA
vorites, while here and there some
in viyidly contrasting colors. There
used to be theory that much of
the crime reported from the rural
districts was traceable to madness
rooms so decorated, although there
is no evidence to prove its truth.
But white-wash did and does have
its virtues. No sleeping apartment
is more inviting than one that has
been freshly lined. No back yard
is so attractive as that upon which
white-wash has been lavished. No
cellar is so light and airy as that
which has had a generous applica-
ton of the brush. White-wash ban
ishes dirt and kills germs. 1t is a
sign of good housekeeping and an
orderly family. 1t is a badge OF
good citizenship and there are all
too few such badges in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

engaged in much important work
which Is not generally understood by
the public Its special activities cover
night schools, the development of
Americanization plans. fresh air and
continuation schools. community CEN
ter movements and other important
work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

Members Of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
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OF all news dispatches credited to
II or not otherwtse credlted IN thts
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All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
Kaiser Stole Shantung,
Province of Confucius

The Chinese Territory Which Has Been Given to Japan by the Peace
Occupied Following
Missionaries Natives in 1897.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

7 must gain my confdeRee n ntp
tAey are made,-Lincoln-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has raised
n good part OF the potatoes 1t
needed the last two years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In old days the militia com
panies used to drill in Capitol Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-12

| days they were considered impreg-
nable. In the days before the war
they were called a veritable Gibral-
The Washington times., 1919-04-15
Classified Real Estate Advertising
SUBURBAN PROPERTY
FoR SALE

SILVER SPRING-One block from trolley.
New 6-room frame, bath, hOt-water heat,
electric lights, hardwood floors and trim;
concrete cellar: lot 5Oxz1S; shade. Price,
The Washington times., 1919-04-15
PLACE.
FOB SALE OR EXCHANGE

TOURIST HOTEL, IS rooms, furnished; /;
ready to open; lake front: private dock !:
select patronage; near New York BOX
46. Times office q