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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
SPECIFIC FUNDS

HROM the standpoint of a man
in the street there does not
seem to be any reason why the
principle underlying the right to
exclusive use of the State revenue
derived from automobile licenses by
the State Highway Department for
road maintenance and of the pro-
ceeds of the hunters licenses by tho
State Game Commission should not
apply to other branches of the gov
ernment. There is always de-
mand for appropriations and always
wifi be. Very often the. man who
alights on some source gets through
his bill and some other object fares
ill. Occasionally an experienced, in
fluential legislator secures an appro-
priation for a project, governmental
or otherwise, that forces pairing
down somewhere else.
The State Department of Agricul-
ture has a big field. 1t is, going to
need more money than it has ever
had. The voting of funds to it VIII
be popular, too. The department
turns in hundreds of thousands OF
dollars every year as license fees for
things it has to supervise. 1t would
make things easier for this line of
State activity to give it use of those
funds. The plan of stalking OIL rev.
enue does not often hurt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
British Hold Spitzbergen
GFrom the Morning Post, Londol

[From the Morning Post, London1
In the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
there is significant clause to the
effect that Germany should be al
lowed to proceed with the complete
organization of Spitzbergen in ac-
cordance with German proposals.
What was exactly meant by this
clause is a matter of speculation,
but it is presumed that Germany's
purpose was, in cooperation with
Russia and Finland, to secure ac-
cess to the ice free port of Kola,
by way of the Murman Railway, and
thereby establish independent COM
munication with Spitzbergen, where,
according to expert reports, are to
be found the richest and largest un-
developed coal and iron deposits in
the world.
If that was Germany's purpose, it
has been frustrated by the action of
the Allies in taking possession of
Kola (the terminus of the Murman
Railway, and by the action of the
British government in assuming ef-
fective occupation of the principal
ports and a large part of the habit
able area of SpitZbergen by means
of an expedition, which was des-
patched Dy lne NOIIeT11 Evaporation
Company, Limited, under the au-
thority of the foreign office, two or
three months ago, and which is
now permanently established in
Spitzbergen,
This expedition was under the
control of Salisbury Jones, manag-
Hg director of the company. Cues
toned as to the climatic conditions
of the country, Mr.. Jones said that
they were healthy in the highest
degree, particularly on the western
side, where most of the British prop
critics were; the cold wash dry and
bracing, and mining operations could
be carried on in comfort for at
/ least six months out of the year. AS
for transport facilities, these were
deep and sheltered ports. only four
hundred miles from Norway and
1900 miles from North Britain.
Already this year upwards of
100000 tons of shipping had been
employed in the transport of coal
from Spitbergen to Sweden and Nor
way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
Just Before the Hun Finish

On Aug according to note
found on German prisoner, Luden-
dorff had just impressed upon his
generals the necessity for economy
in man power. Ludendorff had in
the early part of August 1874, 900
men on a defensive front of 250
miles-from Ypres to the Argonne-
when on March 81 he had had
available 1,729,000 men for attach
ing a front of 1872 miles. His aver
age per mile had been reduced from
1856 for attack to 7,180 for defense
in five months. and he had lost the
initiative.
BY August 5 the Crown Prince
had been driven from the Marne to
the Vesle. Two days later 100 miles
to the north, Sir Douglas Haig
smashed into the armies of Prince
Rupprecht. On August 8, Haig
struck agaln-this time on the Som
me.
The August affair was the great
est of Foch's coups since his initial
counter stroke on the Marne, on
July 1S. 1t was to develop until
the enemy reached the Hindenburg
line. In the first three days of the
battle-August S-10--the British
General Rawlinson advanced nine
miles on the plateau south of the
Somme. On his right the French
armies under Debeney and Hum
bert crossed the Azure, flanked Roye.
and captured Montdidier. IN these
three days the Allies lost fewer
than 5000 men, while eleven Ger
man divisions. were badly cut up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
THE GOVERNORS STAFF

lFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.
What about the Governors
staff?" was a Query that came
from several who sat around
the board of the big dinner, given by
the Terrapin Club to Governor
Sproul, at the Manufacturers Club,
last Saturday night. There is no
doubt that there were number
present who would not refuse a call
from the Chief Executive to don the
brilliant uniform of the old fashion
ed military adjunct to the guberna-
torial office.
Sproul, however, is not going to
have a staff, at least, not one of the
traditional kind, made up mainly of
men who had no previous military
experience. He tells his friends how
he was impressed with the process
sion he witnessed at the Five O'clock
cub dinner when outgoing Cover
nor Brumbaugh walked into the
room and soon walked out again,
followed by his staff, composed large
ly of nonmilitary men.
There are too many genuine SOL
diers around for me to think of
putting civilians on any staff I might
appoint" is q remark credited to
Governor Sproul. II arr not sure
that The new army provisions will
call for a staff, but If they do, l
shall see to it that my appointments
are made up. of men who have seen
service in the National Guard or the
United States army and that the
regulations are lived up to strictly.
/ am waiting for an opportunity to
look over the records of our boys
who have been abroad so that due
recognition may be given to those
deserving"
1t would appear that it is the in
tention of the Governor to attach to
his administration in a practical
way as many as possible of the men
who saw service in the war just
clOsed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
II Offers But Does Not GiUe
From the New York Timesl

From the New \ Iork Times
That Ignace Jan Paderewski knows
more than a thing or two besides
how to play the piano has been
known to a few people for many
years and to a good many people
ever since the great musician turned
statesman and politician and under
took the large task of making a
nation out of the fragments of the
old Polish kingdom. He has devel-
oped of late, too, notable skill in
the art of formulating phrases and
of saying much in few words.
A fine example of what he can do
in this way was to be found in one of
yesterdays dispatches-the one that
quoted him as explaining the spread
of Bolshevism thus: "Most people
like to get money without working,
and that is what Bolshevist Russia
offers"
It is to be hoped that Mr.. Pade-
rewski. in making that statement,
emphasized the word "offers." and
presumably he did so, for he must
know even better than do those for
whom Bolshevism is as yet some
thing they can believe to be far
off. instead of near, as it is for him,
that though Bolshevism offers money
without working to everybody. the
experience of Russia shows that it
keeps the promise only to the few
who happens to get control of what
labor has produced in the past.
OF the accumulated products these
few have no thought of making an
equitable division. even among their
own followers, and nothing at all, IL
they can help il. will they give to
anybody else. Their simple plan
is to grab all they can during the
brief period while the grabbing is
good. That is what was done by
Shrijefski, the Red Food Dictator in
Petrograd, who has just been ar
rested and put on trial by his justly
irritated associates because, as they
charge. he embeZzled $4,000, 900
rublies and hid them away for his
own use.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
ATTENTION TO POLITICS

What we need in this country is
not less politics, but more attention
to politics. Politics is the science
of government, and what we need
Is more attention to the science of
government. We have fought in
France to make certain everywhere
that men should have the right to
govern themselves. and here in this
country where we have that privi-
loge l insist that we exercise II.
Let ds demonstrate the fact 1t is bet
ter'to be an American than to be a
Prussan. by exercising the privilege
OF our citizenship.-Will H. Hays,
Roosevelt Memorial Address.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
KILLED in Action"

"Reported killed in action" wus the
way the message read
And now, I s'pose, he's layin' there
among the thousand dead,
Without a soul a-knowin' that he's
any kin to me.
Or what a grand an noble boy my
soldier used to be.
Reported killed in action" nothin'
more and nothin' less;
But how 1t hapened-how he went
we can't no more'n guess.
There must of some one seen him
fall, or heard his dyin' groan-
I'd hate to think he perished there
unfriended and alone!,
U writ this poem on the day that
Jim arrived in France,
Allowin' that I'd print 1t, at the fust
an saddest chance
But here's a message-come this
noon-see what 1t has to say:
"Well dad, we cleaned the Fritzes,
an'-Im startin' home to-
day!")
Uncle John" in the Lawson
Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. 1919
WHERE AMERICA STANDS
DREsIDENT WILSON tries to

DRESIDENT WILSON tries to
place all the blame for the fail
ure of Congress to enact cer-
tain important legislation upon the
shoulders of few Republican Sem
ators who refused to listen to their
party leaders, but the responsibility
rests equally on the head of the
President. Offering as'an excuse for
not calling an extra session of Con-
gress. so that the Senate might dis
cuss the League of Nations idea as
it develops, Mr. Wilson says it is
not proper for him to be in Europe
while Congress has under considera-
ton important subjects. But he
didn't think that when he hurried
off to Paris and left Congress to
wrestle alone with the" biggest prob
lens in it's history. If the Presi-
dents excuse is accepted as valid
now, then he must admit that he
forsook his duty to Congress when
he first went abroad
will not share with the President
his disgust with the Congress Just
closed, although possibly not for the
same reasons. 1t has been crinSing
and vacillating. 1t has been domi-
mated by the. White House in far
too many vital matters. 1t has had
little will of its own, and it came to
an inglorious finish. Those few Re-
publicans. who deliberately held up
legislation do not represent their
party. They are as wilful and as
stubborn as the President himself,
who, If he cannot have his own way
absolutely, invariably sulks or calls
names. The bulk of the odium for
the failures of Congress must rest
upon Democratic shoulders; the
filibustering' Republican Senators
should have permitted the Demo-
Gratis to take it all.
The President goes back conf
dent that an overwhelming major
iiy of the American people favors the
League of Nations" What he
means is that an overwhelming ma
1ority faNors A League of Nations;
not necessarily the more or less
crude organization outlined in the
original constitution. Mr.. Wilson
will have the earnest support of Re-
publicans and Democrats alike in
any effort he may take looking
toward permanent peace, providing
that he does not mean to sink thcre-
by the identity of America in n
mess of internationalism and does
not endanger the rights and liber-
ties of the American people, We
must be careful that the leveling
process in which we are engaged is
up, and not down. The United States
must come out of this conflict a bet
ter place in which to live. We muyt
not, for the sake of European stotes
that do not understand our ideals,
risk the independence that has been
our proudest inheritance and orr
greatest safeguard. If the Amer
ican peoi'le can be persua I'd that
what the Fresider, proposes guar
antees these things. as well as
makes Tor worldwide peace, they
will stand behind him almost to a
man. Ii not. he may expect to
near from them in no uncertain
terms. The whole issue does not
rest with the American people, OF
Ihe Republican party, or the
Democratic party, but with the
President himself. He has insisted
upon the whole responsibility. He
niust abide by the outcome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

George Il. Tripp, vice president of
the Chamber of Commerce, in his
clever introduction of the speaker at
the monday luncheon yesterday, made
a very interesting observation when
he said that in travelling over the
country the cities and towns of the
east. as in comparison with those of
the South and West, failed to make
the most of their opportunities In
properly presenting their advantages
70 the outsider. He urged the Cham
Der OF Commerce to do everything
possible to spread the fame of Har-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
tFrom Golfers Weekly.1
A CROSS the clover field a French

tNOhSf1 lilC SioNCI iiSlu IL NiiSli
~ burial party was slowly NOV
ing. Single figures, their hands
and arms incased to the elbow in
baglike canvas mits or gauntlets,
wandered alone; the main party dug
or, standing TO windward of the
graves, surveyed their task and the
pleasant sunlit world about them
with the detached and somewhat
macabre humor of those permitted
by their age or other infirmities to
be philosophers. Now and then one
of the single figures waved his
gauntleted hand, and a couple of
others started toward him with a
stretcher.
The story of what had happened
there was told in innumerable guns,
overcoats, helmets, papers, pictures
and letters scattered everywhere.
Particularly there were German
things. Here, for instance, was a
novel, "A Child of His Time" tell
ing with gloomy sympathy, for COM
placent German readers, the tale of
young Frenchman who had fought
in the tragic war of 20, and ever
afterward been pursued by a sort
of perverse fate. There was Social
Democratic newspaper with the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Deputy Attorney General B. ].
Myers used to be city solicitor of
Lancaster.
The Rev. J. J. Resh, who advo-
Gates that ministers study Shakes
peare, has a charge at Freeland, Lu-
zerne county.
Senator Boies Penrose plans a
vacation in southern states.
1T took Judge G. A. Groman, of
Lehigh, just 25 minutes to grant 24S
licenses at Allentown.
Frederic C. Penfield. former
ambassador to Austria, is telling
Philadelphians that America must
mix in world politics.
Mayor f. V. Babcock, of Pitts
burgh, is in Washington to attend
the conference of mayors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
Chinese Not All Rice Eaters

Although many people believe
that every Chinese in China eats rice
every day, millions of Chinese. living
in Shensi Shansi and Northwestern
China, whore rice is not grown,
have never seen or tasted rice, and
millions more in the rice producing
districts cannot afford to eat it
regularly. To be sure, rice is the
staple article of diet in South and
Central China, but there is reason to
believe that in the dietary of the
Chinese people as whole the sweet
potato occupies more important
place.-Youth's Companion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

1t is creditable TO the members OF
the Bar of Dauphin county that they
have given hearty approval to the
proposed city and county building.
These professional men know bet
ter than the average citizen the
great need of such a building and
their prompt endorsement of the pro-
position shows they are in touch with
the real sentiment of the COM
munity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
ON A PAR

Prof. George Heron who declared
in n eulogy of President Wilson,
written last year, that the AmerAaA
Revolution was fought merely to
enable Puritan traders to make prof
it's out of the West Indian trade, has
been appointed a member of our
unofficial diplomatic corps. Well.
he's fit companion piece. for the
Secretary of War, who said Wash
inyton's soldiers were on a par with
Villas bandits.-National Republi-
can,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Now that the legislation for the
joint city and county building is on
the way it may be assumed that the
necessary preliminary steps will be
taken by the City and County Commits
sioners to pave the way for the actual
building. Ii there is anything in the
popular demand for public undertake
ings in. the interest of employment OF
idle men no time must be lost in pre-
pairing for their launching. fA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

There will be general regret
throughout the city over the death of
Charles Z. Lands, former city edi-
tor of the Telegraph and long identi-
fed with the activities of the COM
munity. His sudden death was a
shock to many friends, who will
mourn with those who are near and
dear to him. Mr.. Lands was an
active, hustling newspaperman during
his service on the Telegraph and
never was quite out of touch with
this newspaper during the years in
which he has devoted his energies
to other lines of endeavor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Major Gray. in his very forceful
discussion of the proposed plan for
making the Susquehanna river nav
igable, declared with relation to the
wiping out of the canals by the rail-
road corporations that it was like
CLOSING the arteries and depending
on the veins" He declared he had
participated in what he denominated
that crime which had crippled the de-
velopmcnt of our national life. He
is now doing his utmost to rectify
that great mistake of an earlier day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein. -r.-
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Lewis Heck is one of the outstand-
ing heroes of the war and he belongs
to Harrisburg. 1t was worthy
tribute which was paid to him by
the former American consul to
Switzerland, who addressed the Cham
ber of Commerce, yesterday, and who
was familiar with the work of Mr..
Heck. This city has had many heroes
during the war, but none will occupy
a larger place in the annals of the
great conflict than the brave Harris
burgers who stood against the un-
sneakable Turk and those who were
the victims of his cruelty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
ROADS TO LAST

NEWSPAPERS and property
IN owners of Pennsylvania are
expressing satisfaction in no
uncertain terms regarding the man
ner in which Highway Commissioners
Lewis S. Sadler has taken hold OF
the great proposition of giving the
people of the State the roads they
voted for last year, and it is to be
noted that even those who opposed
the good roads bond issue now COM
mend the Commissioner policy. A
good many persons have had eX-
periences of their own in the past
in regard to improved highways in
Pennsylvania and the frankness
with which Mr.. Sadler discusses the
subject and the finality of his yes
and no are refreshing.
The announcement by the Com
missioner a few days ago that once
the routes of primary roads were
laid down they would not be
changed was something which
meant that the Importance of a
road would be gauged by its use'
not what abuts it. And now the
Commissioner is out with a state
ment that thelFoads to be built are
to last.
While men may differ as to
whether a permanent road will ever
come it is matter of congratula-
ton to have State official say that
the best is to be procured and that
the State is to get a dollars worth
for 100 cents 1t takes courage to
insist on the best. And it will take
courage to get the best that money
at hand will buy.
Mr.. Sadler has plenty of courage
and we are on a fair way to get
roads that will last and not peel off.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
Mourning For the Slain

oh that my head were waters,
and mine eyes a fountain of tears.
that might weep day and night for
the slain of the daughter Of my
people!-Jeremiah tx, 1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
A LuckU Lapse

Jordan complains that he suffers
from lack of memory"
Suffers? Jove! he's in great luck,
considering his past. Tran
script.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

"our road system will be in the ma
ture of legacy to the citizenship
that is coming" says Commissioners
of Highways Sadler. That sort of
talk Indicates breadth of view and
a vision which shows the real quality
of the present administration in this
State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Those who have not read the OPEN
ing chapters of The Private Life of
the Kaiser" which appeared in this
paper Yesterday. should do SO and
then continue from dav to dsv
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg used to be
the center of shad fishing years
ago?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

According to tradition the site OF
the State Insane Hospital used to be
an Indian ceremonial ground.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
LABOR NOTES


or the nearly $4,000 employees of
the Pennsylvania Railroad who en-
tered the military and naval SER
vice of the United States, 225 were
killed In action or died of disease
The National Transport Workers
Federation of England has presented
to all municipal and privately owned
tramways a demand for a working
week of A hours at the presen,
weekly wages.
During 1918 the average wage per
employe for the army of about 275,-
600 workers in the service of the
United States Steel Corporation is
estimated to have been approx
mately $500.
The .Il Boleo Mining Company, a
French organization that has been
operating mines in the Santa Rosalia
mining district of Lower California
since 1885, recently petitioned the
Mexican government for permission
to lower the wages of their en-
ployes. After a careful investiga-
ton by commission appointed for
the purpose the petition was re-
fused.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

Nothing more illuminating regarding
the former ruler of Germany has yet
appeared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

risburg as great distributing ana
manufacturing center.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05
pesstssca sn
Ps~~a4eSa~ia
BY the tx Committeeman

notwithstanding the assertions of
members from smaller counties that
they are not going to get excited over
the Philadelphia charter revision
and police out of politics legislation
there are signs that combinations are
being made on the measures and
that the second and third class city
bills and maybe many others will get
tangled up in them. The third class
city people are determined to keep
out OF any alliances and to get
through their bills If they can do
so without being committed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-05

The Scott bills TO take the police
and firemen out of politics are being
much discussed because they give
the State the first measure of au-
thority 1T has ever had in such a
local matter as policemen and fire.
men through the right of the Gov
ernor to name one of the three COM
missioners. The bills are in the
hands of the municipal affairs COM
mittee.