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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
General -Pershing Republican
BRIGGS

(From the Philadelphia Inquirero
According to the biography of
General Pershing, now running in
The New York Worlds Work, which
seems to be semi official, if the great
commander has an political leanings
they may be looked upon as Repu5-
lican. In the early nineties the
nineties the Pershing family was
Pershing family was centered at
Lincoln, Neb., and influence man.
aged to secure the detail of the then
lieutenant as drillmaster at the State
University.
While there, we are informed by
the biographer, young Pershing alb
stained from actual participation in
politics, but his family was Repub-
lican and all his political friends
were such and the young officer did
not conceal his delight in the cleo
tion of Republican state ticket.
These things may be only of. aca-
demic value. They may have no re-
lation whatever to any future polit-
ical campaign, and, again, they
may be important. 1t is known that
last fall General Pershing's son ap-
| peared. as Republican campaigner
in Wyoming when his grandfather
was re-eleCted TO the Senate.
| No one is wise enough to forecast
the political condition of eighteen
months hence, but at the same time
1t is we'll enough to accumulate data
in every direction. From the be-
ginning of our history every war
| has made a President and the Civil
War made four. ut seems quite like
ly this conflict will provide candi-
dates for both. parties for some years
to come.
! One reason TO think that Pershing
is Republican arises from the fact
that in official circles there seems
sort of conspiracy of silence while
from some unknown source como
suggestions tending to indicate that
Pershing wasn't much of a genera,
after all, and that Baker was tho
real victor of the war. There is a
lot of political dynamite in such n
suggestion and no one knows what
an explosion might produce. At the
same time it is fair to say that Cen
eral Pershing has shown no politica,
ambitions and that the matter as VET
is on the knees of the gods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
FOOLISH RAWLINGS

~ EPORTS that the liquor lobby
X lists are deeply indignant with
Lieutenant Governor Beidle-
man and w. Harry Baker and in
tend to attempt their political ruin
because they did not turn in against
Governor Sproul to help keep Penn
sylvania in the wet" column, need
occasion nobody any alarm. The
VETS have not yet learned that
they are dead and buried politically.
Their voice is from the tomb. They
long ago lost their hold upon Penn
sylvania politics, only the public did
not know it until last election, when
Governor Sproul, the dry candi-
date, overwhelmingly defeated Judge
Bonniwell, the apostle of booze.
They can no longer muster majori-
ties in the Legislature, as they will
learn when the Senate endorses the
action of the Houses approval of the
"dry" amendment.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman
carried the State last fall by a ma
jority even larger than that accord
ed Governor Sproul, and neither he
nor Mr.. Baker need fear the oppo-
sition of the defeated and discred-
tied booze element if turned in their
direction. Indeed, it would appear
Just now that the man or measure
the liquor interests oppose is apt to
stand much higher in public favor
than otherwise. They should pay no
attention to the rawlings of the tooth
less hounds who for years have been
swapping at the heels of decent men
and honest legislation in this Com
monwealth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
ENTITLED TO A REBATE

FUDGE BALDRIDGE, of the
> Blair county courts, replying to
the request of the hotel keepers
that a portion of their license fees
be returned for the period of the
year after July /, when the country
will go dry" or that they be al
lowed to pay monthly instead of
yearly for their licenses, referred
them to the Legislature. New laws
must be enacted if the liquor deal
ers are to be entitled to licenses
for half the year, or for so much
thereof as the law permits them
to ply their trade. A number of
bills have been presented with that
end in view and in justice to the
hotelmen some measure should be
adopted. The Telegraph holds no
brief for the liquor trade, but It
does not believe the counties should
collect fISm the saloon-keepers or
any other Sass of citizens money
for privileges Shich cannot be
granted beyond n certain limited
period. We should not compel
liquor men to pay for full years
license and then gut them off in
the middle of the year. They are
entitled to fair dealing at the
hands of an electorate that has
voted them out of business. Is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
will Teach With MoDies"
(Marjorie Daw in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer)

(Marjorie Daw in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer)
Motion pictures will take the place
of textbooks hereafter in all schools
and colleges, according to Thomas
A. Edison. THE only textbooks
needed will be for the teachers
own use," declares the inventor of
the motion picture camera.
MY impression is that the gov
ernment ought to help in this
work." Mr.. Edison said. There
should be vast fireproof vaults
where all valuable and fireplace
able reels might be stored,
"A great film library Of educa-
tional and industrial subjects should
be built up in Washington. Then
these films could be issued on the
rental system to all institutions in
the United States, even to the most
remote rural school-houses, and the
system could be so operated that it
would pay its own way, would be on
a self-supporting basis like the pen
sion office or postotfice."
Asserting that anything which
can be taught to the ear can be
taught better to the eye," Mr.. Edi-
son continues: "The moving object
on the screen, the closest possible
approximation to reality, is almost
tfe same as bringing that object
itself before the child or taking the
child to that object"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
FATHER AND SON WEEK

30 YOU remember long tramps
through the woods with your
- father in far-off boyhood days?
Do you recall with delight early fish,
ing trips, when the path led down
through the green meadow, where
the. tall grass grew sweet and lush
and the soft spring breeze stirred
the willows to low. drowsy music in
sweet accord with the peace that
was in your soul; when father
tramped along by your side and
all the world was rosy as only a
world is rosy when boy starts out
with his daddy for a whole day
along the streams where the big
bass lurk and the sunfish play
Or you may have memories of a
hunting jaunt into woods and fields
when the naples matched their
flaming torches against the yellows
of the hickories at their back, and
the hoar frost in the hollows was
harbinger of the SHOWS to come;
when the world was young, and
father let you into more woodland
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General Charles w. Kutz, who
was in command at Camp Meade,
has returned to his grade of colonel
in the regular army.
Colonel Asher Miner, who re-
Gently returned from France, is kept
busy doging receptions in his home
county. Everyone wants to greet
him and wants him to speak.
e. T. Stotesbury, the Philadel-
phia banker, will shortly leave for
Florida.
Frank B. McClain, the new
head of the council of defense, is
busy on plans to change the work.
III. w. White, chairman of the
state Commission of Agriculture, is
a trustee. of State College.
L. E. Mallery, OF Bradford, has
gone to Florida for the winter.
-Freeland Kendrick, prominent
Philadelphia Shriner, is due to be
advanced to the position of Imperial
Potentate next summer.
William Price, Pittsburgh
banker named to the State Board
of Charities, is getting many con-
gratulatory kilograms from friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
TO STABILIZE WHEAT
(From the Philadelphia Inquirer


An appeal for billion and a
quarter OF dollars to carry out the
guarantee of $2.20 a bushel for this
years wheat crop does not neces-
sarily mean that this sum will be
expended out of the pockets of the
taxpayers; If so, we might we'll be
alarmed. 1t is asked simply as an
insurance fund and working capital
which may be drawn on as desired.
Should all of it, by any reason, be
used, it would amount to $3.50 per
capita of our population.
1t does not seem likely that we
can raise a billion bushels of wheat
this year, but if we should do so the
world would have plenty of it, and
the open market price would fall
heavily. Just now the statistical
situation in wheat leads to the ex-
pectation that we must send abroad
from two hundred to three hundred
million bushels. With such a drain
on us we might hold prices fairly
we'll up to the guarantee and the
rest would be paid the farmer out
of the funds now asked.
Never before has such a situation
confronted the American people, and
it is to be hoped that we are through
with this sort of thing. The impor-
tant result is that we have all had
enough. bread to eat, although some
of the time it has not been entirely
palatable. Doubtless in a free mar
ket wheat would have risen above
the official price, but on the other
hand it now would be falling rapidly,
so that matters would probably
have averaged. 1t was the sudden
cessation of the fighting which pro-
duced the conditions now existing.
OF course, it is quite possible for
the government to artificially main
tain the price of wheat on the 1920
basis and keep bread high, but the
saner course is to let wheat seek its
own level and pay the farmer the
difference. Wholesale prices of
many foodstuffs are falling, but the
consumer is not as yet sharing much
of the benefit. If we should have
bumper crops this year there ought
to be a decline in table costs. His
tory has abundantly shown that
heavy agricultural yield is essential
to prosperity, and even if we have
to pay some hundreds of millions to
stabilize wheat we shall not conf
plain IL the world gets started in a
normal way once more.
Having made contract with the
farmer, we must live up to it, but it
is certain that this precedent is
going TO veX the nation in future.
Farmers are not the only ones who
will want to live well at the public
expense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1s1s
THE DRY" VICTORY

n ;HE dry" victory in the Legis-
lature yesterday was no sur
prise to those who had any
knowledge of the sentiment on Capt.
toll Hill and throughout the State.
The liquor lobby based it's sole hope
of defeating the prohibition amend
ment in the House on the willing
ness of prominent Republican lead
ers to be its tools, and they de-
clined. The day is past when leg
islation in Pennsylvania is dictated
from behind barroom doors. The
rum influence is dead and doesn't
know it.
The Senate unquestionably will
do as the House has done. The
prohibition amendment will be
adopted in Pennsylvania and the
State placed in line with the pro-
gressive Commonwealths that have
driven booze from the United States.
This will mark the passing of an
influence in Pennsylvania politics
that has always been bad. The
liquor lobby never has fathered one
piece of progressive legislation for
the benefit of the people. Always it
has been interested in sending men
to the Legislature who would safe
guard it's pocketbook and cater to
the prosperity of the liquor trade
at the expense of any other line of
business that might happen to stand
in it's way. At every State conven-
ton, in every legislative or State
wide primary the booze agents were
present with smooth promises or
open threats. But they over-reach-
ed themselves last fall when they
openly backed Judge Bonniwell in
opposition to Governor Sproul and
were beaten decisively And they
showed their weakness by pitting
their forces against the "drys" in a
and were beaten.
The men who stood up under
pressure in the House are to be
congratulated. Dauphin county has
two on the honor roll-Ira E. Ulsh
and David ]. Bechtold, and the con-
stituents who sent them to the Leg
islature may be proud of their man.
ly. course. The others voted to in
still life into a corpse and they will
not be very happy in after years to
have it pointed out that when the
opportunity offered to help put John
Barleycorn under the sod they
thought they were at a christening
instead of a wake.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
FEWER AND BETTER

y NE of the effects of national
prohibition will be fewer and
~ better hotels. Those licensed
places which were maintained mere
ly as a means of retaining their
liquor selling privileges will have to
close their doors or become real
hotels. Hundreds of them will go out
of business, but those that remain
will be larger and better, for they
will have to satisfy the discriminating
taste of the travelling public If they
hope to earn a profit. 1t used TO
be thought that hotel without
bar would be an impossibility-the
profits Of the liquor trade were be-
lieved to be required TO overcome
the losses on rooms and food. III
any hotel man figured that way, his
bookkeeping or his system was
wrong. 1t is not the practice of any
other line of business within our
knowledge to operate one branch
at a profit while carrying on an
other at a loss. This may occur
in the course of trade, but it is
never intentional, and is rectified as
soon as discovered. If the hotel
keeper entertained his guests at a
loss to himself he was foolish and
got small thanks for this trouble.
But it is not likely that he did. At
all events, he must make his rooms
and meals earn a profit now or he
must close his doors. The public
can no longer count on a doubtful
percentage of the barroom profits. If
it ever got any, and hotelmen will
find their patrons ready enough to
pay generously for first class SER
vice-but it must be first class.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
You Are So Dear to Ne

When darkness comes and falls the
drear ynight,
My soul to thee in France takes IN
stant flight.
For all day long with laughing lips
I while
Away sad thoughts of you' and
bravely smile.
But when night come, I'm hungry
\. for you, dear,
There's never pain or sorrow when
Tou're near.
I want to be with you and hold your
- y hand,
/ love your voice. your eyes the way
"a, ~ you stand.
You are SO dear to me I pray and
pray
That God be kind and hasten soon
the day
When war will cease, and from
across the sea
My sweetheart that love, will come
to me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Workers Will Be Women
tDr. Reynold A. Spaeth in Good
Health,

+ Health.l
1t sounds fantastic, but it is a
veritable possibility that the reor-
ganization in European communities
after the war may be. along lines
strongly suggestive of the organiza-
tion of social insects. If we look in
ito conditions more closely from the
point of view of the poportion of the
sexes, we shall see a real signifi-
canoe in the analogy.
The general policy of conscripted
armies has leveled off the European
made population numerically with
out any serious class discrimination.
Since women have not in general ap-
peared in action on the field of bat
tie, their numbers have not been
materially reduced. The proportion
of the sexes has thus been consider
ably altered by the war. The total
number of married women will be
reduced in proportion to the re-
duction in men; and the number
of women who enter industrial
fields, who carry on the work for
hlSiiy oOhS Ny ihSh WIZ ~ 80
creased.
. The war has also had far reach
ing psychological effect upon the
men who have been ito the front.
Even those who have not suffered
actual physical injury can not be eX-
pected to return to the prosatc rou-
tine of their daily tasks with the old
interest and enthusiasm. They are
certain to feel that the biggest JOB
of their lives is behind them. The
severely crippled and blind and
shell shocked, in spite of their occu-
pational re-education, constitute an
obvious burden to society when view
ed from the broad aspect of race
progress. -......
The physical and psychological ca
pacity for work has thus been serl-
ously reduced among European
males. A change in the distribution
of labor between the sexes is there
fore. inevitable in Europe. The gen.
eral tendency toward an increasing
social and eugenic importance OF wo-
men is unmistakable. While we do
not wish to give the impression that
we actually expect to see the posi-
ton of European men approximate
that of the drones in beehive, new
ertheless we believe that European
society is at present facing a con-
dition strongly reminiscent OF the
transitional stage in the evolution oi
social insects described above
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Victory Gardens
[From the indianapolis News.l

have been submitted to show how
much happiness came from work.
ing out of doors how many good
nights of sleep came as result of
the fresh air and exercise, how many
bad tempers were improved and how
many, jaded appetites were tempt
ed by something fresh from ones
own plot.
Most people who had gardens last
spring and summer will be repeat
ers this year. Those who did not
have this happy experience do not
know what they have missed, but
doubtless they have heard from their
neighbors. 1t is none too early to
begin planning. Seeds may be
bought, plots may be planned on pa
per, and still more important, the
ground may be secured. Choice
garden plots are something like the
best theatrical seats-they go early.
Those who have no ground at home
can. easily get some elsewhere. 1t
need not be an acre, and it need not
be a whole city lot. A little ground
is sufficient to furnish the exercise
and the healthful and profitable re-
Suits
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
DisHlLerY to Make Dyes

A few weeks ago the distillery at
Rome, Pa, was sold and is to be
turned into an icemaking plant. Now
announcement is made that dis
tillery on the outskirts of Lancaster
has been purchased by chemical
company of Delaware county dye
manufacturers, who will remove
their entire plant to the Lancaster
location. This dye manufacturing
company is a war development. II
has been proved that America can
manufacture just as good dyestuffs
as the Germans make.-From the
American Issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05

Last year many people felt that
they must offer some excuse for put
tlng on old clothes and working in
their gardens. They spoke of their
war gardens and repeated the we'll
worn reason that they were doing
their bit. Now that there has been
a slight lessening in the demand for
food those who favor gardens have
been suggesting that the efforts of
1919 be directed toward victory
gardens. There is no reason to
apologize for working in the gar
den and the garden needs no other
name than the one that it always
has had.
Garden cataloges have begun to
appear and the magazines are ad-
vertising the seedhouses. Those who
have had gardens know the at
traction of the soil. They are not
hunting for excuses. All they want
is an early spring and fair weather.
Statistics were prepared last fall
to show how many people raised
vegetables how much money was
realized from the sale of surplus
products how much food was saved,
and so on. Statistics might also
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
HdHelujdh

Ring out, wild bells. across the snow!
Now. then, Professor, let 'er go!
And as they clang we'll gaily sing.
There's nothing wrong with any
thing!
We've peace and plenty. War is done,
John Barleycorn is on the run.
The kaiser's gone. The world Is free
We've ample cause TO chort with
glee!"
-Tennyson j. Draft.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Divisional EmbIenS

Recently the Outlook mentioned
the fact that the emblem of the 27th
Division was an arrangement of stars
somewhat as they are arranged in the
constellation of Orion-the reason
being found in the name of the di-
Visions chief, General O'Ryan. To
this bit of army punning the Out
look more recently adds another ex-
ample: The 4th Division has on its
badge something which looks sus-
piciously like a shamrock, but is said
to be an ivy leaf. Get the idea? Ivy
IX-Four. The 35th Division (the
Wildcat Division) has a tailless wild
can Division, employs the symbol
AA; similarly, the Dixie. Division
uses DID.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
FATE

On what strange grounds we build
our hopes and fears
Mans life is all mist, and in the
dark
Our fortunes meet us.
If fate be not, then what can fore
see?
And how can we avoid it IL 1t be?
If by free will in our paths we move
How are we bounded by DEGREES
above?
Whether we drive or whether we are
driven,
II i'll tits ours; If good the act of
~Drydan
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Retaliation
EFrom Golfers Weekly.

Professor William Lyon Phelps of
Yale, tells an amusing anecdote that
illustrates the prosaic quality of the
German mind. Some years ago,
visiting the town of Offenburg, he
was surprised to see a colossal statue
of Sir Francis Drake, the famous
Elizabethian sea dog. On eXamina-
ton he found that the monument
was erected to Drake ''in recognition
of his having introduced the potato
into Euprope." t
/ Why doesn't England retaiiate by
Europe.
erecting a statue to the kaiser; the
man who introduced the cootie into
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
Going on Fire"

A, little like a rabbit,
A little like bird,
A humming bird, a butterfly,
oh, very like butterfly,
A fay. a fawn, a squirrel shy
Gay boisterous, absurd!
A little like a rainbow,
A little like the rain
That wakes the green in withered
sod,
A little like the hand of God.
Oh. very like the hand of God
Upon a heart in pain.
Herman Hagedorn in the outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
A Snappy Band

There is considerable enthusiasm
about starting a Mason Tire and
Rubber Company band. Late last
summer n band was organized and
had three rehearsals when it had
to be abandoned on account of the
war.-From the Kent (Ohio) Cour-
ior
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
JennlI Kissed Me

Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in:
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have
miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
JENNY kissed me.
Leigh Hunt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
NOT EXTRAORDINARY

~AYS the Advocate and Press OF
~ New Bloomfield, Perry county:
~ Assessor #. w. Campbell deliv-
cred and mailed notices last week
to all property holders of real
estate, with their valuation. The
appeal will be hell at Bloomfield,
Tuesday, Feb. 4.
Nothing extraordinary here. Most
appeals are. .......
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05

Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
1t or not otherwise credited in this
1shed herein.
All rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg made
mounts for guns that were
used in some Of the last of the
fighting?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-05

Historic Harrisburg.
As early as 1910 Catholic mis-
sions were held in Harrisburg. The
first church was built in 1924.