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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

Muskogee eoaniy wlll receive 3 ~
go eovernmsns aid foF sood roads ~
fha, county. now belns built
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

Ths women Of Alton are clrcuiaiins
oetiiions this week f0r the calling ~
an eiec,i0n 10 vote si0fo in bonds
for the erection ~ ne~ high school
building. II Is also planned 70 mase
The school an accredited one.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

Senator Hitchcock will not
filibuster against the Knox reso'
luton, He val i mp.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

Mrs Eunlce Steel Of ollion has ~
oeIved a French croix Do Guerre
awarded her husband. who was killed
IN France.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

Donald Tanner @, Miami ls beln.
held on a murder charge. Hs an
LLOYD nirt went swlmmins hirfi
dad body was later found In ih'
river
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-06-19

state convention OF War Mothers o'
America. hsvc postponed the meeting
scheduled for tomorrow al oklahoma
City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
The Price America Paid

iErom the Kansas Clty SldT.J
Henry Wysham Lanter, writing in
the Worlds Work, records that OF
thirty general officers in the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces who were
asked what proportion of American
battle losses was due to lack of
training, twenty-six estimated it at
one-half, and the other four at one
third.
That is the price America paid for
the unpreparedness and lack of mill
tary policy with which it entered the
war.
A lieutenant general whose divi-
sion was attached to General pubon-
nets corps, and which had Il French
division on each side of it, gives this
testimony:
"The French commander spoke to
me one day, before all his staff. at
a council: General, 1 wish you'd
do something about your losses.
Then he showed me a tabulation
he'd had made up, showing that my
regiments, under exactly similar con-
ditions, were losing from two to
four times as many men as the
French on either side of us. 1T is
frightful,' said he, for Gods sake,
general, speak to your men,
and the lieutenant general admitted
it. The American Army had not had
time to train properly. The men
were not trained the, officers were
not trained. a spirit of recklessness
and daring destroyed discipline,
everybody wanted to take a hand
in whatever was to be done, and the
result of it all was that the Ameri-
cans detectives always cost more
than the current price paid by the
French.
The testimony of all general Off
GERS is of a piece. Brigades dis
obeyed orders in order to get into
the fighting where they were not
needed, adding confusion rather than
strength and weakening the line else
where. One such breach of dis
cipline at Montfaucon is estimated
to have cost 1900 American lives.
Officers didn't know where their
commands were. Artillery fire was
wrongly directed. Communications
were broken. Sclentific war was re-
duced to a. melee.
Such accounts are hard reading
for Americans proud of their army
and of it's brilliant feats. But their
meaning must be faced. America
fought blindly, and with its hands
rather than with its head. 1t paid
the price of long neglect of the Ma
tional defense. Knowing that mod
ern war was a highly organized
science it had taken no forethought,
and relied upon the personal brav-
ery of unframed citizens to take the
place of military experience, discip-
line and technical knowledge. Has
the costly lesson been learned" The
action of Congress must show. Army
legislation is now pending there. and
if il is to include provision for mill
tary training the country cannot al
ford TO leave it to chance or the eX-
pediency of politics. An enlightened
nublic opinion must bring it's influ-
ence to bear and make unmistakable
the demand that never again shall
American lives be sacrificed TO igno-
rance and unpreparedness as they
were in this war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
HOUSES AND RENTS

90 LONG as the house supply is
~ as far behind the demand for
dwellings, as it is now in Harris
burg, there will be more or less sus-
picion of profiteering in the in
crease of rental charges. Many
persons have been discouraged in
the matter of building because of
the censorious attitude of renters.
1t has been demonstrated that it is
out of the question to build houses
to-day to rent at figures prevailing
before the war. Increased labor
costs and the high prices of mater
ials practically bar for the present
the low-priced house.
It is hoped, however, that there
will be enough response to the hous-
ing demand to relieve the pressure
somewhat and eventually restore
more or less normal conditions.
Hundreds of people in this city are
waiting the opportunity to rent
homes and there are also scores of
persons able to purchase modest
houses. The Chamber of Commerce
has the matter under serious con-
sideration and it is hoped by that
body that something may be done
to relieve an unprecedented situa-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Justice John W. Kephart has
sold his interest in his Patton news
paper and is still owner of two
papers in Cambria county.
w. c. Stanton, we'll known mere.
has been named an engineer of the
Philadelphia Zoniag Commission.
w. B. Kirker. Allegheny pro-
thonotary. who has been seriously
in, has gone TO the home of
brother at Erie, to recuperate.
Aaron S. Swartz. Jr., son of the
Montgomery judge, is head of one
of the largest Sunday schools III
that county.
Col. c. B. Mehard. head OF one
of the artillery regiments of the new
Guard. has started to recruit and
hopes to get all overseas men.
George II. Orth, of the State De-
partment of Banking, will be
speaker at the conference of money
brokers in Philadelphia.
Senator c.. T.. 'Donahoe shot a
wild turkey in Clinton county before
breakfast on the opening day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
HedDe-ings!
[Fron Cartoons Magazinel

tFrom Cartoons Magazinel
have viewed tense situations
With all kinds of complications
In the good old melodrama; I'm a
judge,
You may believe
But there's naught that ever thrilled
me,
With elastic joy so filed me,
AS the closeup of the hero when his
chest begins to heave.
I've seen frenzied, frantic love-
scenes,
And the sweetest turtle-dove scenes.
I've seen the villain Kissed and
foiled; I've heard his parents
grieve;
But no intrigue nor devotion
Could consume me with emotion
Like the closeup of the hero when
his chest begins to heave.
At the great dramatic crisis
Both my hands go cold as ice is.
And my heart is pounding madly.
and my nerves on the uui
For by all the signs / know it.
That eftsoons they're going to show
That rare closeup of the hero. with
his chest upon the heave.
At Saint Botolph-town's tea party.
Painted injuns, hale and hearty.
Hove King Georges tea-chest's over
board, without a "by-your-
leavc"--
They thought they We're some chest
beavers
AS they toiled by night like beavers:
But they've nothing on our hero
when his chest begins to
heavei
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The $2.75 shirt is worrying more
men than the 2.75 heer.-Boston
Having the Senate, we have one
form of air mast ery.-Greenville
(S. O. Piedmont.
Once there was n town that had
no street railway troubles. 1t had
no street railway.--Detroiit Journal.
Capital and labor are one"
shouts an economist. But he fails
to designate which one.-Sayannah
News.
Seems a pity there isn't some
Chinese poet who can go and cap
ture Shantung.-New Orleans Times
Picayune.
Might does not male right, but
there are few rights established
without. might.--Greenville (S. O.
Piedmont.
The chief difference between a
conservative and a radical is that
the conservative has got his.-Foun-
tain Inn Is. CD Tribune.
Postal efficiency, says Mr.. Burle-
son. borders. on the miraculous"
1t borders on the incredible at least.
New York World
Maybe these magazine publishers
that are moving from New York to
the Middle West are looking for a
larger English-reading public
Boston Herald
A lot of Reds, who spend their
/ time declaring war on organized so
ciety. always seem to be pained and
surprised when organized society
takes up the challenge.-New York
Evening sun.
Boy, page Mr.. Hoover and show
him the sugar bowLL7Wall Street
: Journal. ss*is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
RECORDS IN DANGER

THE strongest argument for a
new city and county public
building is furnished in the
menace which threatens invaluable
records stored in the temporary
quarters of the City Engineer. Here
are documents which could never
be replaced, reposing, many of them
in wooden cases and subject TO al
most instant destruction in the event
of fire or deluge of water.
For years City Engineer Cowden
has been completing his records of
the sewer lines, the water mains.
the street and other surveys, and his
office is also the repository of
registered deeds under "a recent act
of Assembly. These records. once
destroyed. would precipitate a most
serious condition and entail a loss
that could not be repaired. They
should be stored in fireproof vaults
in a fireproof building.
So it is that, the city and county
officials having practically agreed
upon the erection of an adequate
building for the use of the various
officials and the courts, no time
should be lost in perfecting the pre-
liminary plans and proceeding with
the work. There is practically no
opposition save in isolated quarters
where the need is not appreciated.
but where immediate approval is
given when conditions are explained.
Not only the situation in the office
of the City Engineer is serious;
there are similar reasons just as
urgent in other departments in the
court house itself why this building
should be erected without unneces-
sary delay. The last Legislature
provided a way for the city and
county joining in the erection of
such structure and there would
seem to be nov. nothing in The way
lof prompt action.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
Deport Them
TFrom Pittsburgh Gazette-Times

[From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times1
From half score of cities located
in as many widely separated States
news has been received this week of
the rounding up of professed anar-
chists and the seizure of their sedi-
tious literature. In most instances
the persons arrested are aliens, and
in some cases there was prima facie
evidence that the propaganda was
being directed and financed from
Russia. OF the scores and hundreds
arrested for crimes against the Gov
ernment during the past few
months. comparatively few have
been tried and fewer still after con-
Vlctlon have been actually deported,
as provided for by law
The country demands more expe-
dition in this connection, and this
would assure not only an object les
son for the criminals who have thus
far eluded the legal net, but would
assure greater respect for judicial
procedure on the part of normally
law-abiding native-born Americans.
The consumption of time, after con-
Viction, over hair-splitting techni-
caiities, as in the Goldman case, or
the tardiness of courts to take action
responsible in some degree for such
scenes as those witnessed in Cen
tralia, Warrington, after the cow
ardly murder of four members of
the American Legion parading on
Armistice Day. There can be no
justification for lynch law, although
the provocation in this instance was
almost Irresistible.
A soldier boy overpowered by fa-
tgue goes to sleep on his post in
the face of the enemy His trial is
swift and upon conviction his life
is the promptly-eXacted forfeit. The
life of the Nation is not only openly
menaced and the future welfare of
its citizens jeopardized, but physical
as we'll as verbal crimes are being
committed by the Reds. The coun-
try does not advocate military law
in times of peace. but it does de-
mand the speeding up of the ma
chinery of justice in the pursuit of
the enemies of organized society.
When any of these enemies are con-
victed of murder the penalty should
be promptly exacted. When they
are convicted of crimes the penalty
for which is deportation, they
should be deported without unnec-
essary delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
A. PLEBIAN PRINCE

A ND SO King Ferdinand and
~ Queen Marie, of Rumania, are
in tears because Prince Charles
prefers his pretty young wife to the
shaky old throne of his forefathers!
Isn't it sad that son should behave
that his father and mother didn't
raise their son to be a decent mar
ried man? Doesn't he know it is
much more important that he marry
somebody he doesn't love and wear
a crown than to wed the girl of his
heart and settle down to the earn
ing of real, t-to-goodness
livelihood?
We fear Charles education must
have been sadly neglected. May be
during the hectic days of the war
he met up with a parcel of those
low-born American doughboys who
behaved so rudely in Europe recently
and became contaminated with their
plebian ideas about love and mar
riage.
And to think he would disgrace his
family by saying right out before
everybody that he prefers his wife
to riches and would sooner be happy
than be king! What's the royalty
of Europe coming to anyway? First
thing we know this incorrigible
youth will be actually working for r.
living and may be sending his chill
dren to the public schools. 1t would
seem he is really just such an i'm
possible person.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

improbable tales fish stories and will
dub them hunting yarns.
Well, so be it. Do your worst,
YOU gunners, but remember that the
hunting season is short and the fish
ing season is long. We fishermen
do not intend to be licked in one
round and we shall so into training
this winter determined toSwind up
next summer with collection of
Wild ones that will have YOU on the
ropes and gasping for breath before
you fire a single shot. AS our old
friend. that master narrator OF
hectic experience. Baron Munchau-
sen, might have said under similar
circumstances: There are bigger fish
stories than have ever been told. ard
we fishermen are prepared to tell
'em. We're desperate men and not
to be trifled with. You gunners
better stay off our preserves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
SEE AMERICA FIRST"

A MEXICAN hotelmen. despair
~ ing of ever being allowed
again to sell liquor, are prepar-
ing TO recoup their losses by en-
couraging See America First" tours
and meeting in New York last week
they took definite steps in that di-
rection.
That liquor sales are not neces-
safy to the prosperity of hotels is
evident from the success of the Penn
Harris, which will earn Il dividend
its first year without ever having sold
a drop of booze.
The secret of earning capacity is
the large volume of travel through
Harrisburg and the number of guests
satisfactorily entertained. If hotels
catered exclusively to the travelling
public and forgot their barrooms,
all of them would be enjoying
greater prosperity than ever, instead
of worrying about prospective losses.
The American hotelmen have turned
their attention in the proper direc-
tion. The encouragement of sight
seeing tours in America will bring
millions of dollars to the hotels.
With the coming of good roads more
and more people will travel, and
with the turning over of the rail
roads to their owners and the res
toration of excursion rates, passenger
traffic will show big increases.
Then will come the hotelmens
harvest; a harvest to which they will
be entitled and which they never
need fear that legislative measures
will take away. The public should
support this new effort wherever
possible and all advertising agencies
having to do with travel should lend
their aid to its success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
LAY OFF, THERE

IF HUNTING stories, like the
Telegraph published yesterday,
don't reach a limit pretty soon
we shall be tempted to cease posing
as a fisherman and buy a shotgun.
What's the use of spending a whole
summer getting together a fine col
lection of fish stories, with all the
picturesque details that garb the
most glaring improbabilities in the
decent habiliments of incontrovert-
ible fact and rehearsing them over
and over until we almost believe
them ourselves, if all our pains are
to be set at naught by such a parcel
of Arabian Nights tales as TIE gun
ners have been bringing to town the
past few days? We ask any self-re-
specting angler who takes pride in
the artistry of his special brand OF
fish. lore, if these wild tales of the
woods and fields do not constitute Il
fragrant invasion of the ancient con-
stitutional rights OF anglers in the
realm of unusual-we almost said
eileVable-pefsonal experiences.
How do you expect us to compare
our favorite story of the twenty
inch trout, taken from beneath q
fangle of driftwood on a five-ounce
outfit, with that story of eighteen
Sear-old boy who knocked Off
the bobbing head of a wild turkey
at 900 yards with a high-power 30
80 rifle? And how tame our tale
of the four-pound bass that actual
iy jumped into the boat sounds be-
side that whopper about the fellow
who bagged q coon by running over
1t with an automobile, or the feat of
that other truthful nimrod who
catches rabbits by the ears while
they are sleeping on top of brush
piles! Why it's getting so that first
thing We know folks will stop calling
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
Edict Against Face Paint
[From the Rrooklvn Ennla l

tFrom the Brooklyn Eagle.l
Rouge and powder. short dresses
and openwork waists are not artistic.
Neither do they show n balanced
judgment. For those reasons Pack
err Collegiate Institution here has
banned them
There have been violations. Sev-
eral pupils have appeared at the
school with signs of the vanity box
on their checks and the down of the
puff on their noses. They found
that the faculty was not joking. They
were asked to adjourn to a wash
room and on reporting 10 class to
show countenance open and above
paint. second violation means u
repofS - parent or guardian
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
THE NEW SCHOOLS

IND you see the parade of the
Camp Curtin Junior High
School after the football game
the other evening? If you did you
will understand what these two new
schools mean for Harrisburg. They
are making men and women. The
school spirit that has been awakened
there in so short time is truly re-
markable, and school spirit is very
akin to community spirit, which is
only another name for patriotism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg was repre-
scntcd I'm a dozen branches of
the service during the war?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
Days and Days
[Pittsburgh ChronlcIe.Telegraph

Yesterday was Father and Son
Sunday. Why not a Mother and
Daughter" Sunday? And why not q
special Sunday for grandfathers and
grandm others, and one for fathers
m-law and mothers in law? And
then there are the brothers and sis
ters, uncles and aunts and other
relatives to consider. s.-.- - 'a..s. = =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

Members of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
1ished herein.
all rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

The Philadelphia Record makes the
amazing assertion that "four-armed
men" robbed a bank. Why take such
\ risk when the side shows pay such
.arge salaries to freaks?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

When the postal service begins to
drop its mail pouches from planes. as
Is promised, the service men who
brought their tin hats home will be
in luck
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
Appropriate Plants
IFrom Cartoons Magazine |

IFrom Cartoons Magazine ]
For students: Reed.
For hustlers: Rush.
For widows: Weeds.
For cranks: Nettle.
For babies: Creepers.
For fortune tellers: Palms.
For masseurs: Rubber-plant.
For vampires: Poison-ivy.
For misers: Goldenrod.
For gossips: Cat-tails.
For toreadors: Buli-rushes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

Wrong. Mr.. Mayor. Harrisburg
would buy low priced government
wares if given the opportunity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1919

A little philosophy ihelineth a maH's
mind to atheism, but depth in phil
bsophy brfngeth mems minds about
TO yeiigion,-BAces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

ExKaiser Bill has sawed 10000
logs. Just saying nothing. but saving
wood" as the old saying has it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
DOUGHBOYS PAID THE PRICE


Unreadiness, But Those Who
Fought Cost, Says the Ex-Lieutenant Colonel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
HIsroRIC HARRIsBURts

This place had pillory. which
stood in Harris park near Vine
street. 1t went out of business be-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18
Z. J. STACKPOLE
Rr1nidonf nand Edifnr Il, nI


President and Editor-in-Chiet
FIR. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor
"A. r MICHENER, Circulation MaHd0er
Executive Board
UP. MCCULLOUGH,
NBOYD NJ. OGLESBY,
F. r. OYSTER,
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.
TeIeEraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

Death of DIR. J. +. Sachse. the
Philadelphia historian, will be re-
gretted by many here, as he was
much interested in the history of
this section of the State and in a
number of his works referred to
the Importance of Harrisburg in
PENNSYLVANIA affairs. He frequently
visited here and was an authority
on Masonic matters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

Clifford b. Connelley, OF Pitts
burgh, who has been acting Com
missioner of Labor and lndustr,
for several months, will be formally
commissioned as Commissioner b!
the Governor. He has been IL
charge of the department reorgani
zation which is under way. Th'
Connelley appointment as actin;
commissioner WAS confirmed by tn,
last Senate and he will be presente,
for the full term next session.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-05-24
KANSAS.

By Mrs. B. L. Dickersoh'
Mrs. Eula Dismuke OF PlttspurE
preached a very nice sermon for the
c. NJ. e. Mission Sunday, -. The Miss
es Cora Nesbit, Lizzie Jeffries, Theo
dore Foreman and Mary Ffnney were
kodaking Sunday. Mrs. Annetta
Startling Of Girard visited Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Brown Miss Villa core
man accompanied by her sister, MISS
Vivian Foreman, who has been teach
ing in Cranky, Mo-, has returned
home. 90. Miss Bertha Bean of Pitts
burg was visiting her parents Sun
day. Mr.. Jake Johnson went on a
fishing trip Saturday Mr.. Harrison
Simons was elected president of the
Red Club and Mr.. George Bell presi
dent Of the Blue Club of the c. NJ r
Sunday School. Mrs. H. Bell was
called to CoffeyvilIe by the illness Of
her daughter, Mrs. El0er Briley -.
The Misses Lizzie Jef'~ies, Guinella
Robinson and Mrs. Clara Kennedy
were elected delegates to the Sunday
School Convention Mrs. Mary Rog
ers, the Popular Poro Agent of Pitts
burg, was transacting business in this
city Tuesday.