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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
PUBLIC BATHING

1YOw that Colonel Martin, as the
N head of the State Health De-
partment, proposes to make
Harrisburg a spotless town as an ex-
ample to the rest of the Common
wealth, it might be a good thing for
Mayor Keister and all who favor
adequate bathing facilities in the
Susquehanna basin to bring this mat
ter to public attention. Annually
we hear something of the need of
q bathing beach and bath houses,
but with the passing of the munich
pal budget the subject is dropped
for another twelve months. Harris
burg would be much more comfort
able place in midsummer with bath
ing facilities sufficient for our in
creasing population.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
HOW MONEY WORKS

A WELL-KNOWN businessman
~ said recently: Few of US
realize how hard a dollar has
to work to earn six cents in years
time. When we spend a nickel we
do not pause to consider that the
average dollar working 365 days Of
the year and twenty-four hours Of
each day has hard scratching to
earn that much, else we might think
twice about expending it recklessly.
All that is true. The average wage
on salary Garner has never been
taught even the fundamentals of
finance. If he is naturally gifted
and thrifty he learns for himself,
and prospers. But many an other
wise well-equipped man has failed
because he did not understand the
possibilities of the nickel and the
dollar.
Our public schools are seriously
at fault here. Teach the boy the in
side of business, the methods of
Sdplleilt lhC vi
earning power and the difficulties of
making any given amount of money
earn even reasonably fair dividends,
and you will have made a better
citizen of him.
First, his knowledge would give
him a more or less accurate idea as
to how much he as an individual
would be entitled to out OF the busi-
ness and how much the business
could afford to pay. 1t would make
him more reasonable in his de-
mands and more efficient in his
work, for he would then realize how
much earning capacity is governed
by individual effort.
When the school courses are re-
vised let us hope our boys and girls
may be given opportunity to study
the dollar and its possibilities at
short range.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
OUTSIDE APPROVAL

TINE State Highway Department
may feel gratitied over the en-
dorsement given it's road pro-
gram by the Rotary Club delegates
of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New
Jersey and the District of Colum bia
in convention here last week.
The Rotarians, keenly interested
in public improvements of all kinds
and quick to see the magnificent be-
ginning made here by Governor
Sproul and Commissioner Sadler,
went strongly on record as favoring
the Pennsylvania plan as designed
to create a center of highways that
will extend to all the states of the
district.
1t is not the policy OF these clubs,
acting as a unit, to take cognizance
of any merely local activities, but
the delegates in this instance felt
that what Pennsylvania is doing with
respect to highway development is
of vast Interstate importance, and
for that reason they went out of their
way to express approval and to point
out our system and method as ad-
mirably designed to produce equally
good results elsewhere. Shortly Penn
sylvania will be as we'll known for
good roads as once the State was
condemned for its poor highways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
England Sees "African Golf"

A gambling scene Of a unique
character for London was witnessed
the other day:
1t took place in an opera space
near the Eagle Hut, and was wit
messed by a large crowd.
The players were Canadian, New
Zealand, Australian and American
soldiers and American sailors. All
were excited and the betting on the
game, played with a couple of dice,
was fast and furious.
The game is called SCRAP" and
one shoots the scrap" or Shoots"
the dice. A Canadian soldier stand
ing by described 1t as the best and
swiftest gambling game in the
world.
Scrap" is somewhat akin to
banker, but the main idea is to
throw or II with the dice the first
time.
Every one "shot" with avidity.
American sailors knelt lick hackers
at a cockfight, and money passed
quickly with every throw.
Men were betting against one an
other, and against third parties and
eventualities. One gambler had fif-
teen or sixteen treasury notes in his
hand at one time.-From the London
Globe,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
NEIGHBORLY

"HAT was a neighborly thing the
Kiwanis Club did yesterday,
when it entertained the men,
bers of the Rotary Club at a joint
luncheon. Some, who have not un-
derstood, may have imagined that
there was rivalry or clannish feeling
between the two organizations, but
such is not the fact. There is ample
room for both in Harrisburg. The
membership of the Rotary Club is
very limited, and that of the Kiwanis
Club only a little less so. Neither
treads on the heels of the other.
There are more than enough up
standing, vigorous, enthusiastic men
in the city to over-crowd both or
ganizations. Association begets ac-
quaintance, and acquaintance begets
friendship, and friendship begets
confidence, and so any function that
brings the men of the community to-
gether on friendly, common basis
is good for the whole community
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
LABOR AND CULTURE

con seeing a poet making a war
garden)
Poet, client of the Muses.,
Life to you no good refuses,
In high peace your soul reposes
While you build your road of roses
In the miracle of Toll.
Poet, once I saw you hoeing.
While a song was in you growing:
And again I saw you burrow;
Down your field a long bright fur
row;
Twas Apollo at the Plow.
Come, all thinkers, do bread-labor
And relieve the work-worn neighbor.
This way runs the path of Duty,
This way fly the feet of Beauty,
This way lies our Paradise
-Ewin Markham in April Nautilus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
FOREST HARMONIES

l had what Wordsworth calls a
"couchant ear" in my youth, and my
story will wait, dear reader, while 1
tell you of another harmony that 1
learned to love in the wilderness.
There will come sometimes in the
spring-say in May, or whenever the
snow-drops and sulphur butterflies
are tempted out by the first timorous
sunshine-there will come, l say, in
that yearning and youth-renewing
season, a warm shower at noon. Our
tent shall be pitched on the skirts of
forest of young pines, and the ever
green foliage, if foliage it may be
called, shall be a daily refreshment
to our eye while watching, with the
west wind upon our cheeks, the un-
clothed branches of the elm. The
rain descends softly~and warm; but
with the sunset the clouds break
away, and it grows suddenly cold
enough to freeze. The next morning
you shall come out with me to a
hillside looking upon the south, and
lie down with your ear TO the earth
The pine tassels hold in every four
of their fine fingers a drop of rain
frozen like pearl in a long ear
ring, sustained in their loose grasp
by the rigidity of the cold. The sun
grows warm at ten, and the slight
green fingers begin to relax and
yield, and by eleven they are all
dropping their icy pearls upon the
dead leaves with a murmur through
the forest like the swarming of the
bees of Hybia. There is not much
variety in it's music, but it is a pleas
ant monotone to accompany thought.
Oh, how many of these harmonies
there are-how many that we hear,
and how many that are too con-
slant to be heard!"-N. P. Willis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
WILSON on his re-
turn m Paris finds bip,Self in

Il bAoAD1~ANl " 1LooN Ou Ills re-
turn to Paris finds himself in
the awkard position that he in
vited by his course during his earlier
visit to the seat of the peace confer
ence. Then he made the mistake of
undertaking to commit the American
people to the sacrifice of long estab-
llshed national policies without con-
sultlng them or even undertaking to
explain his purposes. Having thus
arrogated to himself a prerogative
that could not be safely accorded
oy a self-governing people, even to
one who possesses the shining attrib-
utes of infallible wisdom, the Presi-
dent has met with determined oppo-
sltlon from many members of the
national Senate, which body must
ratify any treaty before it can be-
come binding upon the United States
Government. The Senators, who de-
mand that the proposed covenant of
the League of Nations be carefully
studied, debated and revised in the
light of wise policy, ask nothing
more than should be granted as a
matter of course. This is conceded
by leading statesmen of Europe and
leading newspapers of allied and
neutral countries.
Meanwhile the necessity for peace
in Europe to replace the ghastly
mockery masquerading as peace
under the existing armistice, is
everywhere apparent. There must
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
Philippine Independence

Congress, of course, possesses the
power to grant or reject the request
of the Filipino people for complete
independence, and there will be no
lack of argument on either side,
when the question shall come up
for discussion and deliberation at
some later date. The Presidents
reported approval of the Filipino re-
Guest is not surprising, save in its
formal expression. He has been in
favol of the return of the islands,
whenever he has spoken on the mat
ter. The act would be IN direct ac-
co'd with his policy of seIf-d etermi-
nation. And possibly he regards the
present as the most opportune mo-
ment for such Il step before the
League of Nations, through Its Sig
natories, binds itself to maintain
existing political and territorial
boundaries.
[F'rom the Philadelphia Bulletin1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
THE PALMER PUZZLE
Iron the Philadelphia Press.

Already Attorney General Palmer
is finding that the rose of Cabinet
office has its thorn. There has been
put up to HIM the question of prose-
cutting the cotton planter of the
South for combination of which
the aVowed purpose is to curtail
production and to raise prices. This
question comes to him, too, at a
time when he is being mentioned as
a possible favorite of the Admins
tration for the Presidential nomina-
ton next year. Already there has
been started talk of him in this con-
nection, and the. member of the
Democratic National Committee
from Oklahoma has been telling the
people of his section that Palmer
is the man for 1920.
Mr.. Palmer must. sincerely wish
that this bundle of trouble had been
left upon the doorstep of his prede-
cessor. 1t is not question that can
be lodged or evaded. The direct
charge against the cotton planters
has been made by responsible per-
sons, headed by Governor Allen, of
Kansas, and they will keep active
watch on the case. The president
of the planters association chal-
lShSCu MI. AliCl " JOlnl uSDdlS
on the subject of the relative patriot
ism of the cotton grower and the
wheat grower, and the reply was
that the only debate is between the
planters and the Department of JUS
tice. The Middle West is greatly
stirred up on the matter, and it is
a section of the country that has a
way of holding to the trail
The South, too, is no respecter of
persons who stand in its way. 1t
even dared to denounce Mr.. Barney
Baruch, the wartime favorite of the
White House, when he ventured to
have his War Industries Board fix a
price for cotton. Attorney General
Palmer stands between the Scylla of
the Middle West and the Charybidis
of the South, which is not a pleasant
position for a gentleman with polti-
cal ambition. And at the Capitol
will be a Congress no longer domi-
mated by the South, nor controlled
by his Presidential friend. There
will be no greater test OF the ability
and diplomacy of the Sage of
Stroudsburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

TO YOU remember those old davs
IL when the biggest adventure of
the spring season was that trip
from away up town, or from Allison
Hill, or wherever else you lived, to
see the big Easter egg in the window
of Dan Bacon's candy store on Mar
ket street?
Mr.. Bacon was the original candy
Easter egg man in this locality. Not
only that, but he used a couple of
barrels of sugar and about a hun
dred pounds of chocolate every year
making up the biggest Easter egg
the town had ever seen. Every sea-
son it used to be a matter of COM
mon wonder among the boys of this
burg that Mr.. Bacon had been able
to accomplish this fresh miracle of
the Easter season, and bets were
freely made among those who had
jackknives and marbles they could
afford to risk, that the forthcoming
Easter would not see a new record
set up. But he did it. Always he
did it. Every year that egg got big
ger, until at last the whole window
was filled, and there was not an
inch left
And then, just when boyish spec
ulation had about concluded that
tho limit had been reached, why he
performed another miracle. He
built a hollow egg as big as those
of other years and put little win
dow In the point just high enough
for boyish eyes, and inside he Gre
ated q veritable fairy-land, with rab-
bits. and chickens, and eggs, and
wonderfully colored rivers that
wound their way down to an invisi-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
The Victory in Michiqan
IFrom Ohio State JournaI1

[From Ohio State Journal
Michigan had an election tE,e
week &c determine public sentiment
on the dry" amendment and the
n !nrity given in favor of it was
twice what i: was in 1916. This
doesn't show that the people ale
weakening on prohibitions; and il
particularly doesn't show tha: tie
solujeI boys are displease1 a; the
t"mLciance legislation enacted while
they were fighting overseas They
fought German kultur and The
prom:L ent idea of kultur is an ur-
controlled liquor traffic. One can
hardly conceive that the cause Of
humanity and civilization could be
identihed IN the slightest with the
triumph of the Hun. The fortress of
Sobriety was what our boys won in
the EIg war, If they won anything.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
Unto the Lord"

In proud humility a pious man went
through the field;
The ears of corn were bowling in the
wind. as il they kneeied:
He struck them on the head, and
modestly began to say,
Unto the Lord. not unto me, such
honors should you pay"
From the Persian, by W. r. Alger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Major Fl. r. Hatfield, former
National Guard officer, who is home
from France, will take part in the
reorganization of the Guard.
e. T. Stotesbury has donated the
use of the Philadelphia opera house
for the Victory Loan meeting of ths
Philadelphia teachers.
Director George S. Webster. OF
Philadelphia. has been elected a
member of the American Academy
of Political Science.
Superintendent ]. p. CARRIER has
opened school for handicapped
children in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
The Bdrds Inability

The plum and peach and pear tree
blooms, that 1 observed last
Sunday.
Persuaded me that here at last was
what I'd own was one day
When il I had the weather made,
like Hicks or old Hostetter,
And I had tried my level best,
couldn't have done better.
-Tennyson ]. Daft.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
Railroad Signals

Black, white and
red are the colors
chosen by the Regu-
lating and Railroad
Section, composed of
engineers engaged on
railroad work, and
men at the regu-
lating stations in
France. The insignia
consists of a white
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
Consistent to the Last

The London Daily News says that
the choice is between a world peace
and a French peace. The paper that
up to the last moment urged that
EIItain stay out of the waf and
profit by 1t is surely a good authority
On ICace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
POeSu'S Appeal

Never did poesy appear so full OF
Heaven to me as when I saw how ii
pierced through pride and fear to the
on peace.-Toronto Mail and EN-
pkrA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

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
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg engines are
used in Western Pennsylvania
coal mines?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

If Postmaster General BurIeson
refuses TO grant them their wage de-
mands, 5000 telephone operators
and 5000 linemen in California,
Washington, Oregon and Nevada
will quit their jobs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

"R" on black field, the field having
red border. A slight familiarity
with railroad signals gives the clue
to the adoption of two of the colors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

Great Britain has an Industrial
league for the improvement of re-
lations between the employers and
employed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
HISTORIC HARRISBURG.

The Supreme Court used to sit
in the Dauphin county courthouse
when the State government was first
moved here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

Print cutters throughout the
country have been successful in get
ting their demand for an increase in
wages of $S.per week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
LABOR NOTES

Great Britain has over $4,000 boot
and shoe workers, all of whom are
now employed on full time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

washington, oregon and Nevada
will quit their jobs.
A great number of English firms
manufacturing munitions during the
war are now changing to lines of
industry by which they can retain
a large percentage of their female
workers.
The New York Typographical I'm
ion held victory" celebration re-
Gently to commemorate the making
OF New York 100 per cent. news
paper city. They have a member
ship of over 5000.
Garment workers in Cincinnati.
Ohio have secured wage advances
amounting to from 50 to 81 a
week.
A lockout of building craftsmen
inaugurated by the Builders Asso-
citation of Dallas, Texas, has been
ended as result of conferences
between the workers and employers.
Union plumbers in Augusta, Ga,
have effected an agreement with
leading employers by which they
will receive substantial increases in
wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18

Montgomery county has seven
candidates for county commissioner
on the Republican ticket.
John Magee, a Pittsburgh con-
stable, has been named by the State
Highway Department to prosecute
violations OF the automobile license
law in regard to license plates, their
display and use.
-Scra lton newspapers are in
clined to say things about uncer-
tainties in mine cave legislation.
Some hard coal region men do not
look for much definite action this
wear
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-18
THAT OLD-TIME EASTER

TO YOU remember those old dav.
IL when the biggest adventure of
Arizona republican., 1919-11-30
At Last, We Know the Person Who First Said "I'll Say So"

Who originated the business of say ing 'T'll say sop
 Was it President Wilson?
 No.
 Was it George Conan?
 Again no.
 Calm yourself, this is no idle jest, for the originator has truly been dis covered. Guess once more.
 Was it Bill Shakespeare?
 I'll say so."
 Bill originated a lot of things, but no one ever blamed him for starting the 'Tll say so" until yesterday when the interesting fact was made known.
 When the catchy slang phrase swept the county Los Angeles newspaper reporter determined to find out who was responsible for it. Now Shake speare who shook a wicked pen back in the sixteenth century stands ae- cused.
 The evidence is a quotation from The Tempest" published in 1923 Authorities state that no positive evi- dence exists for the date of compost tion of "The Tempest: the probabilities being in favor of 1910. It was first published, however, in 1923, nearly 297 years ago.
 In Act the following lines are found: Prospero: Then was this inand-
 Save for the son that she did
 litter here,
 A freckled whel p hag born-not honor'd with
 A human shape. Ariel: Yes, CaIiban, her son. Prospero: Dull thing, | SAY so; he, that Caliban Whom now keep in service. Did you see it there, T SAY so" Of course there is a slight difference, the modern phrase being 'Tll say so" and Prospero's words being simply q say so." But the meaning is the same This interesting footnote is found in a popular edition of "The Tempest:
 The Tempest among other plays, was acted at court in the beginning of
Arizona republican., 1919-11-30

Arizona would be a menace to the aver age citizen. The anti tuberculosis work in the United States has the approval of the highest health and educational officers.
 What Did the Society Do Last Year?
 On account of the war there was no seal sale last year and funds from the national Red Cross treasury were used in every state in the union. The Ari- zona society organized it's work in the state by counties. It provided and supervised the work of six nurses in six different communities. It estap- lished one open-air school. one open- window school and one day camp for children.
 It provided material and organized the modern health crusade for over 1000 children in the schools in this state, and today as a result these chil- dren are washing their hands every day. cleaning their teeth every day, taking long breaths of fresh air and doing other health stunts daily. They started a movement which resulted in the appointment of Dr. Burrage to in- vestigate the question of migratory tu- herculosis patients in the southwest I htN tdTTltu OU tNV'nSlNt euuCdllOndl work in English and Spanish. These were some of the principal things they accomplished in the year.
 Program For 1920
 The program for the coming year syhich will be financed out of the sale of seals is along the same lines as the previous year but with the plan much enlarged. For instance, 77,777 chill dren in the public schools should be modern health crusaders instead of 1000. There should be many more health nurses. There should be clinics for children and adults in many places A Spanish worker should be employed There should be many open-air and fresh-air classes in the public schools with rest period at noon and extra feeding. The society should make every effort to get a full time depart