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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
MELLIFLUOUS PALAVER

DRESIDENT WILSON'S mes
sage to Congress is notable
only as to those portions which
recommend recognized Republican
policies for the safeguarding and
upbuilding of the United States, es-
pecially the protective tariff and
the budget system. 1t isn't the first
time that the present occupant of
the White House has adopted as his
own constructive suggestions of
statesmen affiliated with the great
party which he has shown no dispo-
sition whatever to trust during the
recent crucial years. 1t is generally
conceded that a different attitude on
country into the war and during the
peace negotiations would have saved
the United States much Of unrest and
controversy.
The Presidents suggestions and
views regarding business and the
things which must be done to stim-
ulate and safeguard our economic
life make little impression upon the
able and thoughtful leaders VINO
have been patiently waiting for
some sign of real understanding at
washington of the stupendous prob
lens which confront the indust rial
and commercial interests of the Ma
tion. So, also, with reference to his
criticism of the noisy apostles of dis
ruption and discomfort.
Speaking of the passionate and
nfalevolent agitators' responsible
for widespread unrest and result
amt evil, he placidly observes: 'It
seems to me that in dealing with
this situation Congress should not be
impatient or drastic, but should
seek rather to remove the cause"
Congress long ago provided a prac-
teal and effective method for the
deportation of the passionate and
malevolent agitators," but the agen-
cies of the Wilson administration
have been strangely dereIict in get
ting rid of the undesirables who have
openly plotted to overthrow our Gov
ernment. Indeed, these conspirators
have been treated as persons worthy
OF kindly consideration and their
precious lives have been safeguard
ed, even when our brave men were
, being blown up in munition plants
Asro - on the fighting front in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
CHO-CHO COMING

THO-CHO, the great health
I clown" is coming to Harrisburg
to plead for the sale of Red
Cross seals.
Making joke of keeping well is
a fine way to impress the little folks
to whom life itself is one great joke.
Teaching the lessons of sanitation
and good habits by laughter, may
be new thought, but 1t surely should
prove effective.
Cho-Cho has won the hearts of
children wherever he-has gone and
Harrisburg parents should not lose
opportunity of having their boys and
girls enjoy the witticisms and wis
doms of this scientific funny man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
Not Enough ButtinSkyS
[ From Osborne Village Deacon.

IFrom Osborne Village Deacon.]
What we need in most every conn.,
munity is more fellows who will
attend to other peoples business
The other people are too careless of
their business and overlook too
many points. Besides, they don't
know anything about their own bus-
ness affairs anyway. The fellows
who devote most of their time to
other peoples business are more
efficient and can handle the other
mans business better than he can
himself. They admit that fact them
selves, so it must be so. The fellows
who never had n bank account can
give the bank president all kinds
of pointers OIL how to improve his
business. Then there is the man
who can tell n minister just how
to preach and how to manage his
flock. Very few editors know how
to run their papers, but the fellow
who has been in printing office
three times in his life knows all about
1t. All towns would be better If they
had more buttinskys on the Job.
Just because a man is successful is
no sign he knows how to run his
business. 1t is n paying job, too
this running of other peoples bust
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
CUT 1T DOWN

MOT the least of the tasks con-
N fronting the new Congress
will be to cut down the esti-
mate of five billion dollars wanted
by the administration to run the
Government the next two years.
Granted that the war debt does re-
quire interest to the amount of q
billion and more, that several
branches of the Government outside
the Army and the Navy do need
more money and should have it.,
there is still a big difference be-
tween the billion dollar Congress of
few years ago and the five billion
Congress of to-day.
The sum is larger than is actually
needed and larger than tie people
OF the country ought to be asked to
pay.
A wholesale dismissal of clerks
and officials whose most important
duty is to draw their salaries ought
take place. The way to get rid
of them is to cut off their pay. The
Congressman with a salary ak in
his hand ought to be a popular
figure in Washington this winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
A MINIMUM OF $1,5O0

F" HE proposal of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the
United States to make the
minimum salary of it's ministers
$500 a year is movement that
might well be inaugurated by every
denomination in the country. The
ministry is not money-making
profession, but the Servant is
worthy of his hire" and it would be
a pretty poor preacher these days
who would not deserve $500 a
year. II he is not worth that he
ought not to be in the ministry,
but being worth 1t, he ought to have
it.
1t is an old story, this one of the
underpaid ministers of the gospel,
but in these times of rising prices
and increased costs must be given
the consideration it deserves. In
the first place, no man is at his best
when grocery bills and household
expenses in general are so close to
his salary limit that 1t is anybody's
race. Secondly, to use a term the
old-time sermonizer was fond of in
his day, the calls upon a minister
are many and he must be given the
means of meeting them. But last
of all, many worthy and able young
man are kept out of the ministry by
the fear that they will not be able
to earn enough to decently rear a
family.
If for no other reason than this,
the plan of tie Protestant Episcopal
Church to raise very large sum OF
money in a one-day campaign to-
morrow should succeed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
Ertrd DiDidendS
[From the N. Y. Times. ]

lfrOH Jne N. >. lilleS'I
Every now and then some new in
dustrial concern adds its name to
the list of those declaring extra divi-
dends, all of which is very pleasing
no doubt to the stockholders, but
there cannot help but be raising of
the eyebrows by the hard hit con-
sumers, especially where the prod
uct of the company concerned en-
ters directly into living costs. Extra
dividends in most instances spoil abb
normal profits and abnormal profits
are being frowned upon from official
to. lay circles. The most recent en-
trant into the extra-disbursement
class of companies is the Endicott-
Johnson Corporation, one of the
large manufacturers of shoes. The
quarterly dividend was announced
yesterday as s1.25 a share on the
common stock and q. 81 extra divi-
dend for the year UP to S5, or at
the rate of 10 per cent. on tho COM
mon stock which is $50 par.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
Cars Garry TDO Billion
[From the New York Times. ]

From the New YORK IlmeS.
Less impressive, somehow, than
the statement that New York's var
ious interurban transportation lines
carried more than two billion passen-
gers in their last fiscal year is the
other statement that in that year the
fares paid on these lines, instead or
being 43 per capita, as they were in
1860, now number 270. OF course,
not every man, woman and child in
the city takes more than one ride a
day throughout the year in surface,
elevated or subway cars, but those of
us who take more such rides than
that make up for those who do not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General w. I. SchaffeI
has warned men engaged in mar
riage brokerage in Philadelphia that
the law may be invoked against
them if they persist in evil practices
e. l. Humes, the Crawford
county revenue chief, is busy getting
after men who sell near beer that is
almost as strong as the old stuff.
Bishop ]. f. Berry, of the Meth
odist Church, has urged that
churches be kept open for persons
who are unable to get coal at home
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06

The more we read the Presidents
message the more we think he must
have been perusing recently some of
the Republican party's presidential
platforms.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
May Smoke in Other Ways

[From Blighty, Londonl
You can always tell a profiteer-
he will smoke cigar with : band ON.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
DO YOU Know

THAT Harrisburg's Public
Library has made a record in
circulation of books among
school children?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06

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Associated Press Is exclusively en-
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All rights of republication of special
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
SATURDAY, DECEMBER @, 1919

People toho Hue only to Gmuse
Themselves toork harder at the task
than most people do in earning their
daily bredd.-HANNAH MORE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first law erecting Harris.
burg into borough dates from 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06

If you don't hurry it will be too
late to do your Christmas shopping
early.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-06

Possibility of electric lighting
being curtailed is causing some in-
teresting inquiries to be made at the
Public Service Commission. Com-
panies have been asking whether
they can curtail service because OF
fuel shortage without permission of
the Commission and others want ia
know what steps to take without
getting into trouble.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Ice Dealers Swindle
BY Short Weights
Investigation Shows Customers
Suffer Through Failure
To Watch Scales

Ice dealers throughout New York
State, with some exceptions, have made
a profitable season of this summer by
short weighing their customers, ac-
cording to figures compiled by Com
missioner Eugene Fl. Porter, of the
division of foods and markets of the
State Department of Farms and Mar
kets.
DR.. Porter assigned W. I. White, di-
rector Of the Bureau of Weights and
Measures, to make a statewide inspec-
tion of ice deliveries during the last
three days in July. Armed with scales
and tongs, the inspectors checked up
on 2,122 separate deliveries by $40
different dealers and found that more
than 80 per cent of the scales exam
ined we're under weight
In ATS cases the short weiehting was
between one and three pounds; in BAT
deliveries it ran between three and
six pounds; 90 cases showed swim
die of from six to ten pounds and 1872
were ten pounds or more short.
A total of 479 Of the deliveries ran
overweight, and 5S7 were found to
be accurate.
The consumers themselves are
blamed in large measure by Commits
sioner Porter. Many housekeepers per
mitted the ice wagon drivers to take
the coupons from the books themselves
and few thought of reweighing the ice.
Four dishonest dealers have been con-
vacted a. . result Of the inspection,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Gas Building Is Called
NOn-Essential Luxury
City Assails Company's Prop.
erty Valuation in Fight ON
8O-Cent Rate

The plan of the nineteen story
structure owned by the Consolidated
Gas Company, at Fifteenth Street and
Irving Place, was introduced as an ex-
hibit yesterday before Special Master
A. S. Gilbert in Judge Mayors cham
bers in the Woolworth Building in the
suit designed to have the S0cent gas
law declared unconstitutional and con-
fiscatory. Arthur Stark, an engineer
for the gas concern, who has charge of
the allotment of space in the building,
was the only witness.
Stark explained that in addition to
the office space occupied by the main
and branch Offices of the gas company
five restaurants for the various grades
of clerks were in the building. In ad
dition, he said, space was used by the
Edison Electric Light Company and by
the display department for bakery de-
vices and appliances. The American
Gas Association and Boy Scout or
ganization also have Offices in the
structure.
1t is the contention of the city that
huge sums of money listed by the Con-
solidated Gas Company as property
valuation upon which they should get
a fair return is non-essential to the
production, distribution and sale of
gas and is held largely for the purpose
of boosting overhead costs. The city
argued that the large Office building is
a non-essental luxury.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Jail Sentences Imposed
On Six Taxi Chauffeurs
Penalty of From 3 to 5 Days
Each Inflicted on Traffic
ViOIatOrs

Taxi chauffeurs had a bad day in
the Traffic Court yesterday, when six
received from Magistrate w. Bruce
Cobb jail >sentences of from three to
five days each, without the alternative
of paying fine, for blocking taxi feed
lines or "bucking" them.
The charge that the police were play
ing favorites on Broadway and per-
mitting some sightseeing chauffeurs to
solicit fares, while arresting others,
failed to make an impression on the
court, when Karl A. Anderson, thirty
four, of Elmhurst, Long Island, was
charged with soliciting fares from a
place other than a public hack stand.
day in Jail and fine of $40 was the
penalty. Four other chauffeurs Of
sightseeing buses were fined s10
Silvio Helm, forty, a composer who
makes the Lambs Club his home, was
acquitted of charge of reckless driv-
ing, made by Policeman Hunt, of the
Arsenal station. Raymond Hitchcock,
the actor, proved an effective witness
for Helm. He said the composer had
not driven on the sidewalk at Eighty
first Street and Central Park West,
because he was right behind him at
the time.
More than 500 defendants appeared
for hearings, with but one court at
tendant and one clerk to wait on them.
However, nearly 200 were heard dur
ing the morning session and the docket
was cleared by mid afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Burglars Visit Four
In the Same Building
$1,000 Worth of Goods Taken
From One Firm; Another
Loses Its Samples

The lootng of manufacturers Office
and sales building at 38 West Thirty
third Street over the week end became
public yesterday despite police attempts
at suppression. The thieves apparently
worked at their leisure. They broke
into four establishments on three floors
and they tried several Others
Bernstein e. Smellow, dealers in
dresses and robes, lost $1,000 worth of
goods. The Pyramid Costume Company
lost $500 in samples. The A. l. Magid
Company, manufacturers of beaded bags
and novelties, lost $10O. The w. & S.
kaplan Company, coats and suits, was
robbed, but firm members would not dis
close the amount.
The establishment of L. & J. Vein
berg, wholesalers of waists and suits
occupying the sixth and seventh floors
at 43 West Twenty fourth Street, was
entered on Thursday night and $4,000
worth OF silk taken. The burglars
climbed fire escape to the seventh
floor, which they made a perilous swing
to a window twelve feet distant, which
was not protected by burglar alarms.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
$4,000 Decorators
And Painters Go
On Strike To-day
Walkout Set for Friday Is
Advanced as Surprise to
Bosses; Five.Day Week
and 81 an Hour Asked

Fourteen thousand painters, paper
hangers and decorators will go on
strike this morning.
AT meeting yesterday at their
headquarters, 166 East F'ifty-sixth
Street, the strike committee of the
New York District of the Brotherhood
of Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers, decided to advance the date
of the strike originally announced for
Friday. Feeling that they would gain
a point by surprising their employers,
the officers of the union ordered the
men to quit work last night and not
go back to-day.
Allen Fisher, chairman of District
Council No. 9, said yesterday he ex-
pected this move will bring the strike
20 an earlier close. All Jobs have been
Left as they stand
Following the breaking of trade
agreement between the employers and
their workers, some Of the members Of
the master painters organization
locked their men out A general lock
out was declared on August 9, but
most of the painters were working for
Independent employers and were not
affected by this order.
On July 26 Philip Zausner secretary
of the New York Council, presented
the demands of the workers to each of
the employers. These demands were
for five day working week of forty
hours, with wage Of 81 an hour.
The painters had been receiving Sc a
day for forty four hour week.
retary, "accepted the modest increase
of SO cents day last April, with the
hope that the cost of living would de-
crease and so enable them to exist on
their earnings. This hope, however,
was in vain. Instead of decline the
cost of necessaries mounted so high
it no longer is within the reach of
painter to exist upon his present
wage"
The employers contend that the de-
mands are too high for the trade to
bear. They feel that the workers broke
the agreement to maintain peace in
the industry until the end of the year
and they are determined to force the
issue.
Meanwhile apartment renovations
will be brought to a standstill. Build
ers say the strike will have little ef-
feet on basic exterior work of their in
dustry, but it will tie-up interior deco
rating.
August is the beginning of the rush
season in the painters trade. Apart
ments have to be done over for fall
occupancy, and new apartments pre-
pared for October leasing. This year
particularly will the tenants feel the
strike, declared some of the union
leaders. During the war little renovat-
ing was done on account of shortage
of help and thousands of tenants have
been waiting for this time to have
their rooms refurbished.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Sugar Planters Wife Sued
Lawyer Seeks TO Collect $2.98l
Alleged Loan

Warren ]. McConihe, lawyer, is the
plaintiff in the Supreme Court in an
action to recover S2,9S1 from Mrs.
Virginia Foster de Sorzano Jorrin. Mr..
McConihe alleges that he lent the
money to the defendant, who is the
wife of Julio de Sorzano Jorrin, a
Cuban sugar planter, in 1918, while she
was living at the Hotel St Regis.
Justice Lydon yesterday decided
against Mrs. Jorrin on her motion to
set aside an order which Mr. McConihe
obtained to examine her before trial.
She has entered a denial of his COM
plaint. The order requires her to pro-
duce bank books, check books and
vouchers from November 20, 1918, to
May /, 1919, all receipts for bills paid
and unpaid bills and "her accounts at
the Hotel st. Regis and the Ritz Carl
ton and with her jewellers, bootmak-
ers, dressmakars. miliners. doctors.
florists, dentists, French teacher, sing
ing teacher, music teacher and all
other tradespeople, persons and ccr-
porations"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Police T4.icked by Bandits
Patrolman Lured From Post by
False Alarm of Fire

A false alarm of fire is the newest
agency utilized by hold-up men, ac-
cording to the police of the Fifth
Street police station. The experience Of
George Richards in the early hours of
yesterday bears them out.
Richards was held up by five men,
three of them armed, at the corner of
Fourth Street and Second Avenue. He
called for help, but none was forthcom-
ing for several minutes, and, though
he lost nothing. Richards wondered at
the failure of the policeman on post
there, Patrolman Sneehy, to respond
to his cries.
Sheehy at The time. was making
vain search for fire that had been
reported to Police Headquarters from
Sixth Street and First Avenue. The
police arc convinced the hold-up men
called out the fire engines to lure the
policeman away from the scena Of the
attack on Richards.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Dry Ban Will Increase
Smoking, Asserts Cuban
Brother of President Menocal
Says Islanders Will Spend Big
Sums Here. This Season

DR.. Luis B. Mcnocal, one of Cuba s
most famous surgeons and brother
of President Menocal, was at the Hotel
Majestic yesterday en- route to his sum
mer home at Lake Placid. where he will
remain for month before returning
to New York for another siX-weehs
vacation.
Dr.. Menocal declares that thousands
of visitors from Cuba, held back by the
war, are preparing to visit New York
late TINS summer and fall, and New York
hotels, shipping centres and theatres
will do prosperous busnes as a result
"Cubans," he said, ARE prosperous
just now, and they spend when they
come to New York. Many thousands of
dollars will be left here by visitors from
my country"
DR.. Menocal believes prohibition is
going TO give an impetus to tobacco
growing in Cuba because people de-
prived Of liquor will smoke more 81
believe the next tobacco crop will be
calculated at about 100000, ,0O0," he said.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
undermining an
English Kitchen

1t is interesting to note
that an entire electrical
kitchen and laundry equip
ment was shipped from the
W anam aker Efficiency
Kitchen to London, England.
last week. Of course, we all
know that our cousins across
the sea have never thought
much about the conveniences
and modern inventions to
save household labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
&|aQ|t&$AkR} s G ! t Z; |I,kl||I|!!}i'

father, was formally welcomed to this
country when he was Prince of Wales,
was sent to Admiral Halsey. of II. M.
S. Renown, yesterday by William Fox.
The Academy of Music has been re-
modelled so that it is now just as it
was when the grandfather of the
present prince attended it.
"Please convey to H. r. H., the
Prince of Wales, the congratulations
of the motion picture workers through
out the United States over his safe
arrival in the new world" said the
telegram sent by MIR. Fox.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
{ COnCerninq Germany

Two books recently pub.
hshed are.of timely interest.
Their titles rather explain
what they are about. One is
"Germany's New War
Against America. by Stan.
ley Frost of the Tribune.
This book is introduced by
\. Mitchell Palmer Attor-
ney General of he United
States. formerly Alien
Property Custodian Ii is
highly recommended BY
Francis p. Garvan, the pres.
ent Alien Property Custo-
dian. It seems to get righ.
down to brass tacks." 81.
The other book Is Ger
many in the War and AZ
ter by Vernon kellogg,
which gives an excellent idea
OF what the German mind is
like. In this small volume
the author traces tte grad
ual decay OF German morale.
81
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Interesting
demonstrations

Last week many people
enjoyed seeing ice cream
frozen in the lower oven of
ONr electric range and a meal
cooking IN the upper oven at
the same time. This after
noon at 2 80 our housekeep-
ing expert Mrs. Croy, viii
bake q cake in the upper
oven and freeze ice cream in
the lower oven Of the range
at the same time.
If you are planning & new
home or thinking Of re-
modelling your old home, it
Woulc be quite worth While
to step into the WanaD1sker
Kitchen and talk over the ar
rangement Of things with
Mrs. Croy.
II your plumber refuses to
build your sink high enough
ii you cannot make him
understand, send him down
to see the way the one is
bullt in the Efficiency
kitchen.
Laundries are important,
toe. The laundry in the
Efficiency Kitchen is always
ready to show you what it
can do in the way of saving
time and labor.
Seventh Gallery,
Now Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Creenspan Not Satisfied
Asks Governor for Further
Dannemora Hospital Inuuiry

Louis Greenspan, the Jamaica law
ger whose charges against the man
agcment of Darnemora State Hospital
Tor the insane brought about an in
Vestigation of the institution by Gov
ernor Smiths Commission on Prison
Survey, wrote to the Governor YES
terday protesting against that bodv's
recommendation that the charges be
dismissed.
In his letter Mr.. Greenspan says that
Adolph Lewisohn, chairman of the
commission, did not attend any of its
hearings. He asked for the appoint
ment of a committee which win be
present at the hearings.
In this way you Can satisfy me. as
You have promised'