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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
A ON

[From the Ohio State Journal
A mans personal circumstances
make all the difference in the world
in his views of economic rights and
wrongs. Give the most extreme and
vociferant Socialist on the town plat
at job at $4,000 a year and he no
longer will believe that all the
money on earth ought to be divided
up equally. He will buy a sedan and
be converted TO the eternal prln-
ciples of conservatism
No State in the Union is more
opposed to Bolshevism in all It's
crack-brained and hideous tenets
than Kansas. Kansas stands like a
rock. a living speaking rock. for
the recognized and just rights of
property. Kansas is harvesting its
wheat crop, IL million acres, Zzo
million bushels of the golden grain
worth $50 million dollars II a cent.
The only bone Kansas has to pick
with capitalism at present is that
motor car companies are shamefully
behind on their deliveries. Other
wise the status quo is just about
right. .
But If the Government had fixed
the price of wheat at SO cents a
bushel or if the hot winds and the
grasshoppers and the Hessian fly
had harried and ravaged and de-
spoiled those golden fields then
Kansas. as we know by past expert
ence. would be for Bolshevism in
some rural guise so earnestly, SO
deafeningly, so determinedly and
so contagiously that all we sober
minded, sound minded. sound
money. rights of property citizens of
Ohio and other points in the effete
Fast would be worried to death
about the control of the national
convention. We wish Kansas and
everybody else could he prosperous
and happy all the time though per-
haps the world makes more real
progress when n grasshopper year
is thrown in occasionally.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
The State Constitution

[From the Johnstown Tribune.1
While a commission to be ap-
pointed by Governor Sproul is con-
sidering the necessity and advisable
ity of a Constitutional Convention,
there are three more proposed
amendments to the States charter
of rights for the voters to consider
this fall. The first is of the peren-
NAL sort, applying to Philadelphia
only. 1t has to do with the borrow
ing capacity of the city. 1t is not
of importance to the rest of the
State and will doubtless be approved
without question.
The second proposed amendment
is of interest to everybody, especi-
ally to those who pay taxes on real
estate and improvements. 1t is
also of interest to our Single Tax
friends and will be looked upon by
them as a step towards their idea
of taxation. 1t provides that it shall
be lawful to classify subjects of
taxation for the purpose of laying
graded taxes and taxes which prog
ress to a standard. If the amend
ment becomes law it will be legal to
make separate assessments of
ground and improvements and to
grade taxes on classifications so that
the disappearing point may event.
ually be reached.
The third proposed amendment
has to do with the State banking
system. 1t limits charters of State
banks to 20 years, following the
Federal law in relation to National
banks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
The Original "Ape Man"

fauna of huge or fearsome beasts,
which included the saber-tooth and
the hippopotamuS, and also rhinoce-
roses and elephants of southern type.
II was a chinless being, whose
jaw was still so primitive that it
must have made his speech imper-
feet; n he was so much lower than
any existing savage as to be at least
specifically distinct-that is, he can
be called human" only If the word
is used with a certain ~largeness.
Again we make a long skip-this
time of somewhat over a hundred
thousand years-and come to the
Piltdown man, or near-man-a be-
ing seemingly a little farther ad-
vanced than the man of Heidelberg,
and in some ways less so, for he
possesses apelike canine teeth.
THE next race was that of the
Neanderthal man, much more mod
ern and more advanced, III lower
than my existing savage, and specifi-
cally distinct from modern man. This
rae dwelt in Europe, without other
human. rivals, for an immense per-
iod of time; bly, at least fifty
thousand years; certainly an age
several times as long as the period
included in the interval between the
earnest pOllSneQ stone men ana our
selves-in other words, several times
as long as the ages of polished stone,
bronze and iron and the total of his
toric times all put together.
Some of their favorite caverns
were lived in by them and by their
successors for fifty thousand years.
AT last the life term of these
primitive hunter folk drew to a
close. They were not u ancestors.
With our present knowledge, it
seems probable that they were eX-
terminated as completely from Eu-
rope as in our own day the Tasman-
ians were exterminated from Tas-
mania.
THE most profound change in the
whole racial (not culturaD history
of Western Europe was the sudden
and total supplanting of these saw
ages, lower than any existing human
type, by the tall, finely built Gro
Magnon race of hunters, who in IN
telligence evidently ranked high as
compared with all but the very fore
most modern peoples, n who be-
longed to the same species of man
that we do-Homo Sapiens.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
DIR. Anna HOWdrd ShGW
From the philadelphia Recordl

From the Philadelphia Record
In the hour of victory, Dr.. Anna
Howard Shaw, the woman suffrage
leader, is dead at her home in Moy-
Ian. Her associates will speak of her
as a martyr to the cause, and in a
sense they will be right. for the
pressing work put upon her during
the past few months could not but
have an injurious effect upon her
system, weakened by intermittent
colds during the winter and by the
added burden of years.
But DR.. Shaw's work was done,
and as she was "all woman 1T is
not surprising that she should pass
as she did. 1t was but natural that
she should display the womanly
raft of holding determinedly to the
work in hand while tina work was
yet to do, and of giving way only
when the stress was over. She lived
to see accomplished the dream which
she shared with Susan b. Anthony,
and she had the comfort of ending
her DAYS surrounded by OWING
friends who rejoiced with her In the
victory. -
The s~uffragists were most
fortunate in having in their leader
such an attractive and winning per-
sonality as DR.. Shaw possessed;
Eminently sane in her views. opposed
to m~ilitancy, tolerant, witty, dis
tinguished in appearance and thor
oughly devoted to her cause, she
made friends for it where the more
radical advocates repealed them. A
wholesome and lovable character in
every way, DR.. Shaw will be missed
by thousands who found in her a
safe guide and a generous and nelp-
fuI friapd
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

NEWSPAPER reports that Pro-
N fessor r. L.. Garner, of the
Smithsonian Institute of Wash
ington, d. c., has found in the
French Congo a man monkey" or
talking ape" lend interest to a COM
munication sent by the late Theo-
dore Roosevelt to the National Geo
graphic Society telling of the pre-
human ape man of Java, who lived
some 500, 600 ears ago., and marked
an upward stage in the evolution of
man.
Colonel Roosevelt's famous jungle
hunt was in the vicinity of Profess
sor Gamers travels, as they are de-
scribed in newspaper dispatches, and
the Roosevelt big game is mounted
in the Smithsonian Institute with
which Professor Garner is associat-
ed.
Regarding this "ape-man' of Java,
one of many missing links" in hu-
man evolution Colonel Roosevelt
wrote to the National Geographic
Society:
This being was already half way
upward from the beast, half way be-
lWSSh lIuS HldI anu lIlOSS 4hlOCcAc
ancestors of his, who were still on
the psychic and intellectual level of
their diverging kinsfolk, the anthro-
.poid apes. He, or some creature like
him, was in our own line of ascent
during these uncounted ages when
our ancestors were already different
from all other brutes and yet had
not grown to be really men, He
probably used a stone or club at
need; and about this time he may
have begun very rudely to chip or
otherwise fashion stones to his use.
His progress was very, very slow;
the marked feature in the progress
of man has been it's great accelera-
ton of rapidity in each successive
stage, accompanied continually by
an inexplicable halt of dying out in
race after ace and culture after
culture.
After the ape-man of Java we
skip a quarter of a million years or
So, before we get our next glimpse
of a near-human predecessor of
ours. This is the Heidelberg man,
who lived in the warm second in
t~erglacial period, surrounded by a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

ate. In the opinion of the new
head of our educational activities
we should enter into a specific and
definite program contemplating the
teaching to read and write the
English language of those who can
not read and write within the next
two years. Having gone deeply into
the problem as it affects the Empire
State, it may be assumed hat DIR.
Finegan will make the Americana
zation work an important feature of
the educational effort of Pennsyl-
vania.
The other day a young Italian
who came to this country at the
of is, and who has since become a
most enthusiastic and patriotic
American citizen, expressed some
forceful views in a published article
on the weakness of our attitude as
a Nation towards the immigrant.
out of his own bitter experiences he
concluded that a personal interes
in the immigrant and a real effort
to help him understand our institu-
tions and ideals would do as much
to correct the unrest of the alien
population as the educational facili-
ties which are provided in night and
other schools, although he favored
all such agencies n solving the
problem. Speaking for himself, he
had found, he said. a better APP
probation of America through hr-
ing in a sympathetic home than in
any other way.
An aged citizen of Harrisburg,
who was born overseas, said to the
Telegraph not long & hat there
is too little interest taken in the
immigrant by the average good cit
izen; that because OF this indifer-
ence the foreign-born resident I'M
bibes the notion that he is not
wanted here and as u result him.
self becomes indifferent to our sys-
tenn OF government anu Inv
can ideals.
A general American:zation move
ment throughout the State, fostered
by patriotic and civic organizations,
would probably bring about a re-
markable change in the attitude OF
the alien population and reduce IN
large measure the menace OF
shevism and similar movements of
the restless element of our popula-
ton which comes from overseas,
DR.. Finegan may be trusted to give
force and effect to an active propa-
ganda looking to Americanization
in every corner of the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General Edgar Jadwin, who
commanded the Pittsburgh engineer
regiment in France, is n of the
army officers sent to observe condi-
tons in Poland.
Colonel John c. Groome, who
organized the State Police, is in
command of special troops in Baltic
provinces.
The Rev. DR.. j. Gray Bolton.
Philadelphia clergyman is urging the
approval of tine League of Nations.
Charles M. Schwab will be hon
pred by Cambria county friends who
will erect a flagpole at his Loretto
home.
pr. John G. Brashears. the
Pittsburgh scientist, made speeches
on July 4, in spite of his age.
Judge Charles L. Brown, of
the Philadelphia Municipal court,
celebrated a birthday yesterday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

City Council cannot afford to pass
up the Italian Park proposition ow-
ing to the comparatively small cost
of improvement of that district Too
many opportunities have been lost TO
Harrisburg through eNaggeratIon of
the first cost as against the wide
spread benefits involved in present
action for the future good of the
community.
1t will not be forgotten that the
city once declined to accept a gener-
Gus tender of land for park purposes
by the late DR.. Z. II. Coover. and
found too late what a serious mis-
take was made. Let M such blunder
follow with regard to thsFeity Plan
ming Commissions proposition and
the generous tender of the Mckee
Graham estate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
ARBOR VITAE
]. K.-Died July 30. 1918.

j. K.-Died July 30. 1918.
Nothing sings so sweetly Is the
silence of his song;
Nothing runs so swiftly as his
feet. supremely still;
Nothing seems so neighbored to
to the heavens as the hill
Wherein he sleeps all conquering,
forever young and strong.
His soldier body is at peace and
dreams have closed his eyes.
But his spirit drains the cup of
love for which his BODY hled.
Oh, poems may be made by fools.
as humbly he has said,
Yet God and he have made the tree
hennath whose shade he lies.
Louis Ayres Garnett in Poetry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

Faithful canteen workers in this
city have been made unhappy by the
occasional carload of military prison
ers who have received their kindly
attentions. These prisoners are said
to include a considerable number of
young soldiers whose offense was abb
senting themselves from camps in
Europe without cave after the armis-
tice. Handcuffed and without shoes
they present a sad spectacle. and the
good women who minister to their
comfort during their stops here can
not understand the severity of the
punishment imposed upon these men
who fought for the sake of humanity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
A Missouri Summer Day
[From the Kansas city star.I

IFrom the Kansas City Start
Frank Robinson. a farmer of Oak
Grove, was driving a s~elf-binder In
his wheat field Wednesday. when he
smelled smoke. He found nothing
wrong with the machine and start
ed to drive on. Just then he felt a
painful sensation in his right arm.
His shirt sleeve was burning. oil
from tho machine had soaked into
1t. and the heat of the sui set the
grease afre. he believes. Robinson
extineuished the blaze before f"--
Their harm was done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

Maybe the time will come when the
tremendous water power OF the Sus-
q%uehanna river will be utilized to
illuminate Harrisburg, furnish power
for it's street railways and industrial
plants and electrify the railroads.
which are now consuming great
quantities of coal and belching smoke
over the city and neighborhood. In
ci~dentally. Congress is giving consid-
Grafton to water power legislation
and the Improvement of navigable
streams. which facts the
hope that the canalization of the
S~usquehanna river is not a far-dis-
amt dream.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

OF course, the location of the pro-
posed new high school building on the
Capitol Park civic center would have
been ideal, but as one discouraging
report after another regarding that
particular location had the effect of
holding up ina decision in selecting
a site. it is not surprising hat public
sentiment has crystallized in favor
OF another location. Careful study
of the problem by the school direc-
tors has resulted in the almost unani-
nous conclusion that a central site
is now out of the question.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

Inasmuch as the Boy Scouts of
Harrisburg nave taken an honorable
and useful part in the city's activities
it is not too much to hope that the
organization may be specially equip
ped for real propaganda and real eff
fort in a movement for the planting
and care of trees throughout the city.
AS nothing officially has been done
the city may find. it necessary to APP
peal to the sturdy boys who are soon
to be the sturdy men of this progress
sive community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

The Dupont's are making good use
of their millions in developing a great
system of highways n modern
school facilities for Delaware. Penn
sylvania has not been so fortunate
in private benefcence Of this sort,
but the recent session of the Legis-
lature. under the tute1age of Cover
nor Sproul. took a long step forward
in the field Of education.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

The American people are looking
with confidence to the present Con-
gress to ~untangle many of the snarls
which have resulted from the incom-
petence of the present administra-
ton. Already the Senate and House
have accomplished much in a short
time, and the determination to en-
force economy of expenditure is an
encouraging symptom under existing
conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
Kansas at the Soda Fountain

From the Salina Journal
one Of the most helpless things
existing to-day is the nickel. 1t can
do nothing without the help OF a
penny.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
Discomforts of Minnesota

rFrom the Red Wing Eagle1
Mrs r. 7. Long. of Minneapolis.
is spending a few DAYS In town,
owing to a scarcity of dancers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

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
lishSf herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
More Responsibility

From tho paleigh News and
Ohserver1
No matter what the Stock FIX.
change NAV do in f~othaning cotton
IN and down ~ &c tho weather ma-
wh" e determining the final land
ing place
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

minutes the clump of French feet
die away in the distance and another
section of the west front has been
taken over by the Americans"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
DO YOU KNOW
Harrisburg pretzcls are sold
In Berks county?
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG
The Name SurDiDeS in Kansas

Supplies for Bouquets army
we're gathered here by John Harris-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

The Philadelphia Evening Bull
letin, which has been giving much
attention to the coming mayoralty
election in the Quaker city say first
steps toward picking an independ-
en- candidate for mayor will be
taken to-day by the special commit
tee named to discuss possible can
didates. In this connection names
of Congressman ]. Hampton Moore.
A. Lincoln Acker, A. E. Buck and
Bayard Henry have been mentioned
as Republican candidates. The In
quirer says: Mr.. Moore would not
run without Penrose support. The
Public Ledger is serious about the
mayoralty. saying: THE choice of a
Mayor and Council for the city of
Philadelphia, under the terms of
the revised charter. is not in any
strict sense of the term a question
of party politics. The Philadelphia
Record on the other hand looks for
a fine old fight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

[From the Medicine Lodge Republic
can.l
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Redwine were.
guests of Mrs. Redwine's brotheEi
near sun City Sunday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

State wide interest has been
aroused by the special bond election
in Pittsburgh tomorrow. The
loan submitted will be the largest
to go before the people of any city
in the State since the var and
there are many objects to be carried
out under it. With exception of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch which is OPP
posing. the subway proposition in
$4,000. 600. the newspapers
of the city are giving much space
to the discussion in the newspapers.
Mayor Babcock's speeches are being
printed extensively. This loan cleo
ton will be the preliminary to an
interesting primary contest in Allie
gheny county this year, the signs of
which are to be seen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

Colonel George Max McCane,
whose articles in the Evening ledger
are much discussed. has handled
Philadelphia people a jolt by an
article in which he says the new
charter means a whole new crop
of bosses. He writes: An entirely
new order of things will be put in
force a system that has never
been tried in this or any other city
in Pennsylvania. The New York
system of district leadership which
has made Tammany so powerful in
the past. will form the basis for the
reorganization of factions and par
ties dominant and otherwise in the
city"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

William H. Wilson, former leg
islator and now director of safety.
is spoken Of as a likely candidate
for council. So is Representatives.
S. ]. Cans. Patrick Conner. James
a.. Walker. r ]. Hefferman and
Jimmy" Franklin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
PeGitca ;~
Pe~~oqeSania
By she Ex-Committeesnan

By the Ex-Committeeman
Governor Sprouts action upon
bills now in his hands may have
considerable effect upon dates for
filing nominating petitions with
county commissioners this year. The
bills were among those passed in the
closing days of the recent session
and as they are operative upon ap-
proval there will be more or less
effect upon petitions and also nomi-
nation papers if they receive the
signature of the executive.
The period for circulating petit
tons for judicial nominations, the
only mes to be filed with the secre-
tary of the Commonwealth this
year, is open and under the present
law they may be filed until August
S. If one of the bills is approved
a day will be clipped off this period.
In event of approval of other bills
there would be a shortening of the
time for filing petitions, with county
| commissioners. Under the existing
law these papers can be circulated
commencing on July IL and must be
filed August 20.
If the bills are approved a state
ment will be issued giving the new
dates for circulation and filing.
The first nominating petition to
be filed by a candidate for a judi
cial nomination was entered by
Timothy Everitt, of S%troudsburg.
candidate for associate judge of
Monroe county. All judicial nomi-
no change in the law as regards
last Legislature.
Governor William C. Sproul
comes back to Harrisburg to-day
to n of the greatest tasks that
has confronted a Governor in regard
to disposal of bills. Over $50 meas
ures have to be acted upon within
less than three weeks and when
some of them are approved they
will bring other matters in their
train as for instance the reorganiza-
tons or appointments for changes
for which they provide. Virtually
a third of the State Government is
affected by the bills in the hands of
the Governor and by August l it
is probable hat changes will be
started. When a department is re-
organized every place under 1t be-
comes vacant automatically and the
job of selecting "a force anew starts.
T~wo-thirds of the bills in the n
of the Governor are appropriation
measures and chairman of the APP
preparation committees will be here
during the week to present such in
nation regarding this years APP
preparations and what was voted in
other years as the Governor may
desire. Heads of several depart
ments of the State Government,
commissions and boards have also
been summoned 20 be prepared to
give information and the Capitol
looks for a strenuous two weeks.
Governor Sproul has been away
from Harrisburg for about ten days,
the greater part of which time has
been spent at White Sulphur
Springs. Va. He took a number OF
bills along with him and action on
them is anticipated at an early day.
Attofne y General William I. Sehafs.
fer and his deputies have been busy
on studies of various bills for the
Governor.
1t is probable that the bill
abolishing the State Fire Marshals
Department and transferring it to
the State Police Department will be
announced as signed soon. Mar
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07

1t is probable that the bill
a~bolishing the State Fire Marshal's
Department and transferring it to
the State Police Department will be
announced as signed soon. Mar
shall Howard f. Butt, of Hunting
don. will likely he the head of the
new bureau and take most of his
staff with him.