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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Simple Mans Simple Greed
[John D. Wells in the Buffalo Eve
ming News.l

[John D. Wells in the Buffalo Eve
ming News.l
Elisher-he's our hired man
Allows there amt no better plan
OF circumventin' woes an cares
Than smilin' when y come down
stairs;
An lives UP to it, square an blunt,
Like general run of preachers won't!
Elisher smiles an fore you know
The rest of us is smilin' so
Ketchin' Like! My law,
1t fits from him to me an NAV,
An then across to Uncle Dri
Or Marry Ellen mebbe! why,
I've seen it set the pup
A-waggin' fore the sun was up!
Then bimeby, as like as not,
Some man will pass that's mebbe
got
A mortgage that his crops can't
fetch,
But like enough the man will ketch
Elisher's smile an drop his frown
An tote the smile away to town,
An peddle it where, bein' wuSs,
The people need it more than us!
The feller at the griss mill gifts
The spirit of the smile-it fits
Across an through the blacksmith's
door,
An breezes through the general
store,
Then out again, an wreaths, dog
gone,
Whatever face it fastens on
Because Elisher's smile is jis'
AS ketchin' as the pink eve is!
An then the feller brings it back
At night along the back'urds track,
An scatters it on either side
The County road, both far ant wide,
Until, by time when we get in
From work, the smile is back agin!
Back home agin. an seems t bless
Elisher for his cheerfulness.
Because you smiled" it seems to
say!
"The world has had holiday
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
THE WIZARD is DEAD

FRANK BAUM is dead. and
millions of children, old and
A young, the country over will
mourn his passing.
No more will there appear on the
bookstands about Christmas time a
new volume of adventures in The
! Wonderful Land of o." The door
to the enchanted domain of the
Wizard has been closed forever. No
body but Frank Baum ever knew
the way, but countless children fol-
lowed when he led the way. as did
the babes of another century the
Pied Piper of old. Only. after the
journey they always came back
home again with sweet memories of
the wonders they had been shown
and thrilling pleasantly with the
strangeness of the homely adven-
! lures through which they had
passed.
Yes, homely, for though grotesque
and utterly impossible, the Tin
Woodman, the Scarecrow and other
figures that played prominent parts
in Baum's stories were human. The
things they said and did were the
things one would expect of people
in the same circumstances. All their
experiences and adventures were
based on the common, everyday eX-
periences of life transferred to the
realm of the white magic with which
the Wizard of OF surrounded MS
kingdom. The Wogglebug, Jack
pumpkinhead, the Cowardly Lion,
Margery and the rest of them were
all real personages, always amusing
and mostly charming.
Baum had a genius all his own.
Nobody will be able to take his place.
But his work will live long in the
memories of those who saw Mont
gomery and Stone personify the
characters of the Tin Woodman and
the Scarecrow, or who followed the
adventures of his grostesque crew
through the cleverly illustrated pages
of his books. Countless others will
enjoy the volumes he has left, but
for those who have followed each
Iew excursion into OF, with fresh
wonder and delight, the end has
come. The door to the road to the
Wonderful Land of OF is closed for
all time. Frank Baum has passed
through, and locked it on the other
side and has wandered away to an
~. x,1 ni irXY
and carefree as the hours his follow
ers spent with him in years agone,
following Margery down the sunht
paths and through the shady bow
ers of the delightful country Of,
e-believe, where the Impossible
happened and miracles were the
commonplaces of everyday life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
End of German MiIitdriSm

The great German General Staff
is abolished by the Treaty of Peace,
and the army is reduced to 100000
men, including 1000 officers. These
two requirements. to which Germany
must submit, would alone suffice to
tell the story of the limitation of
military strength imposed by the
victors in the great war. Germany
will not be able to disturb the peace
Of Europe in our time, and perhaps
never again. With her people re-
leased from the burden of taxation
to keep up a great army and navy,
her military system shattered, her
military caste deprived of its arro-
CANT power and dispersed, German
statesmen can indulge no more in
dreams of empire. The old order
has passed; the new order will be
devoted to peace and industry, for
great reparation costs have to be
paid. and Germany must qualify by
good works and self-discipline to re-
enter the family of nations and enjoy
their respect again.-From the New
York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
COLLEGE BOY NO MOLLYCODDLE

ticularly great among college men.
l remember one of my students,
a young man of the utmost refine
ment of spirit, whom / asked:
What branch of the service will
you choose 2" He said: The in
fantry." "Why?" Because 1 be-
lieve this war must be settled by
dirty work with the bayonet. l hate
the thought of it, but l want to take
my share of the dirty work" The
gallant lad who insisted on going in
to the ranks, and was commissioned
almost in spite of himself, died
heroically in the south bank of the
Marne helping to stem the German
rush across the river. The official
report said that in the immediate
vicinity of his dead body and that OF
the enlisted man who fell beside
hir'. there were IL dead Germans.
Those people who feared that war
would breed among any class of our
American young men, college men
or others, a military spirit or love
for war, may lay aside their fears.
If you want to meet people who
hate war with a deadly hate, talk
now with officers and men of our
army who have been in France
From THE College Man in Action"
by Paul van Dyke, in the May Scrib-
ner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
DASHEEN VS.. POTATO

~ UT West they are trying to
II introduce the dasheen as
rival to the potato. Indeed,
Desheen VS.. Potato is a case before
the court of public of opinion in
almost all of the Western news
papers and in every one of the
Western agricultural journals. The
Kansas Agricultural College has
given special study and care to the
cultivation of and experimentation
on the uses of the dasheen, and
recently has conducted what might
be called research work for the
United States Department of Agri-
culture if applied to something
more dignified or commercially I'M
portant than a mere vegetable. But
as the case stands, no one in the
western half of the United States
may claim standing as vegetarian
who has not thorough knowledge
of the theory and practice of the
dasheen. In general characteristics
it is said to be similar to the potato.
You can eat dasheen just as
grown, or you can turn it into flour
for the baking of almost anything
for which wheat flour is ordinarily
used. But who wants to eat potato
-four with billion bushel wheat
crop at hand, and who wants to
eat dasheens Eve suppose that is the
plural of the word) when potatoes
can be grown just as well? AS for
lis. we defy the dasheen enthusiasts
to prepare anything from that vegc-
table approaching a dash of mashed
potatoes made as the farmers wives
of Pennsylvania can make them
mashed first, then beaten with q
fork, the while large quantities OF
rich milk and fresh butter are added,
until they are as smooth as silk
and as light as a feather. Literally
deluged with chicken gravy, Penn
sylvania mashed potatoes offer q
dish that would make the most
dainty prepared dasheen blush foi
shame.
No, thank you; send the dish Of
dasheens down to the guest from
Kansas. Pass US the mashed pota-
toes. please, and IL you haven't any
mashed, why hashed brown, or
home-fried, or French-fried will do
Dash the dasheen when there are
potatoes to be had.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
TOR example, the idea of using
II the bayonet was practiculary

TOR example, the idea of using
the bayonet was practiculary
distasteful to most of the young
college men with whom l talked in
America before they came to France.
l believe that some natural repug-
nance existed among our troops as
a mass. Yet every officer with whom
l talked spoke of the readiness and
Ieagerness of his men to charge with
the bayonet. Scores of officers have
told me that the only difficulty they
ever had with a platoon, company,
battalion, or regiment was to hold
them back and stop them from try
ing to make too long advances. l
have it from officer after officer out
of his actual experience that the
Germans would not stand up to our
men with the bayonet, and one older
man, with the habit of careful OBJ
servation, told me he had seen num-
bers of German dead, killed by the
bayonet, but had never been able to
find on the field of battle single
American killed by the bayonet.
This seems to me a prerogative in
stance of the triumph of will, rea-
son, and the sense of duty over the
irepugnance of natural instincts
which must have been, from what
l saw before / left America, par
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Old Friend Coming Back
[From the Kansas City Timesl


The locusts are coming. The sew
enteen-year locust. Scientists have
given us the advanced warning lat
the singing bugs are to be with us
again this year.
There was a time when we feared
them. They frightened the children.
nenaced the crops. stuag the borTee,
stampeded the cattle and drove tho
dog; mad, according to the uadi-
tions and superstitions surrounding
the seventeen-year locust.
Cnoe they were regarded as a
"sigI.," sign of anything that hap
pencd out of the usual after the ear
nC tic ir visitation. Immediately fol-
lowlr the Civil War they were re-
garded as a sure token of wal, be-
,cause they appeared just before the
outbreak of the Rebellion. If dry
weather happened one year when
they appeared, their next appearance
on the scene was regarded as the
forerunner of a drought. But we
have lost faith in them as sign"
War did not follow in their wake,
and it rained the next time they
came after the drought, so we quit
betting on them as signs"
We believed at one time that they
carried about with them a""stinger"
beside which the business depart
ment of the humble bee was a sooth-
ing portion, and our childhood days
We're replete with stories about what
happened to bad boys who tried to
catch them and put them in the
teachers desk at school. We have
become suspicious that the story was
started by an old maid school teach
er who hated insects of all kinds, in
Guiding bad boys.
Now, the scientists tell us that the
only damage they do is to sting small
fruit, and drill holes into the limbs
of trees in order to lay their eggs.
Therefore we are told to screen our
cherry trees and cover up the cher
ries. The once proud locust that put
the mighty Pharaoh ION the blink"
has become only pestiferous insect,
a maker of noise and a disturber of
the peace of Sunday school picnics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Impudence of Germany

If, as is alleged, Germany intends
to present a counter claim against
that of the Entente Allies for deaths
of civilians, fall in birth rate and
losses directly and indirectly due to
the blockade set up by the British
fleet and carried on with the assist
ance of other belligerents UP to the
close of the war, it is clear that not
only Is she totally impenitent, but as
impudent and arrogant as ever. A
blockade or state of siege in which
the object is to cut off supplies from
an enemy, Is one of the most ac-
cepted and at the same time humane
forms of warfare. for II can be
brought to an end whenever the
subject of the siege chooses to yield.
From the New York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
OLD LADY

Why is life "all right?" Well, take
your case;
You're seventy now and almost
through with it:
You've borne eight children, outlived
all but two;
Those two are poor and you're still
strong" at your age.
And do the housework: wash, bake,
iron clothes
In a hot kitchen when the heats ap-
palling:
Your husbands dead: your friends
don't come to see you;
You sit alone at night to read your
Book
And your head mods, you dream of
days gone by:
After a while you creak to bed and
darkness
Is life "worth while?" I, knowing all
your story,
Am sure of IL, now have seen your
smile.
Samuel Mccoy in scribner's Mag
AGAuSs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
AT the End-Y0uth

If had created men and women,
I should have framed them on a
type widely different from that
which has actually prevailed-that
of the higher mammifers. should
have made men and women, not to
resemble the great apes as they do,
but on the models of insects
which, after a life as caterpillars,
change into butterflies. and for the
brief final term of their existence
have no thought but to love and be
lovely. should have set youth at
the end of the human span.-From
THE Garden of Epicurus," by Ana
tole Franco.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
THE AMERICAN LEGION

T IS to be hoped that the signs
of disagreement and pickering
which appear in the preliminary
efforts to organize, as the American
Legion, the men who served under
the Stars and the Stripes in the
great war, will be smoothed out and
that the Legion will become as
powerful and as popular as the
Grand Army of the Republic. Ger
tainly, 1t has wonderful possibili-
ties.
The young men who will compose
this, or whatever organization may
be formed to take in the member
ship of the American army in the
war. are the hope of the Nation.
They risked their lives for 1t. They
have been able to compare its bene-
fits with those OF governments
abroad. They have a wider vision
and broader view than when they
went away a year or two years ago.
They may be depended upon to de-
From the ranks of this new Grand
Army will come the great leaders
of popular thought, the spokesmen
of the people, the statesmen, the pol.
iticians, the millionaires, the work.
men. the preachers. the scholars, the
teachers-the officers and the rank
and file which will make up the
woof and warp of American life
for the next fifty years and more
1t is proper that thsy should stand
shoulder to shoulder in civil life al
In the days of battle.
They will differ politically and in
views on all subjects, and he who
attempts to inject party politics into
the new organization will find him.
self sailing in troubled waters. with
breakers ahead. But as to politics
in the larger sense, unless we greatly
mistake, we shall see a great new
force come out of this new Grand
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
trough ON REDS"

THERE comes wall from cer-
tain pacifist circles against the
Rough on Reds" treatment
which returned soldiers and sailors
are giving some OF the radicals who
have been trying to overthrow the
government for which these young
warriors have been fighting. They
are the same humanitarian souls
who would object to the use of
Rough on Rats" to rid the country
of the rodent pest that carries about
with it cholera and other disagree
able germs.
and by the same token, there is
small difference between the reds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10

their country. Lieutenant Thomas
has been in military training most of
his life. He started in at Scotland
Soldiers Orphan School and when
just of the required age, entered
Company L of the old Eighth. He
served some time and when the Ma
tional Guardsmen were called for
Mexican border service, he re-entered
and became first sergeant of the
company, serving throughout the El
Paso tour of duty, coming home with
the rank of lieutenant. He was train
ed at Camp Hancock and Fort Sill
and went over with the One Hun
dred and Twelfth, going through
everything that it went up against in
France. Lieutenant Thomas has a
fine record in which every member
of the Telegraph family takes pride.
With the close of the Victory Loan
campaign to-day, Mercer B. Tate
goes back to his regular job" for
the first time since the war started.
Many Harrisburg people have been
called upon for war service duties,
but few have been SO steadily at
work or so often drafted for ardu-
Gus work as Mr.. Tate, and few, it
may be said, could have acquitted
themselves so well. Tate has been
an active member of every commit
tee on every war drive that has been
staged since the war began and in
addition has been employed con-
stantly by the Red Cross. His SER
vice has been modest and unosten-
tatious. He has seldom appeared in
the lime-light. But he has worked
as much as twenty hours day and
a lot harder than he would have had
1T been his own duties. And now,
the war being over and the last
drive staged, he breathes a sign of
relief and is beginning to think
about the necessity of making a
little money for himself. Those who
know what he did in patriotic
way, say that when the medals are
being passed round a large bright
one should be presented to Tate.
"I am going home to tell the folks
in Altoona what l saw the Boy
Scouts of Harrisburg do toward pre-
serving order during the parade on
Wednesday, said Harry X. Price,
an Altoona man, to q Telegraph re-
porter yesterday. Il would like AL
toona Scouts to know what your
boys do. 1t was certainly an inspir-
ing sight. And those boys know
when they are within their rights,
too. as was shown by the spirited
manner in which they resented the
efforts of a lad in civilian clothes
who struck one of them while the
Scout was keeping the crowd back.
The fault was entirely the boys.
The Scout did only his duty, but it
certainly did my heart good to see
that the youngster who started the
disturbance was fined by the Mayor"
Congressman L. T. McFadden, of
the northern tier, who was here
yesterday in the action against
Comptroller of the Currency John
Shelton williams, is well known to
many residents OF this city, as for
years he came here to attend legis-
lative sessions as an officer of the
State Grange. He is a banker, a.
farmer and also fighter, as the
Federal officials have found out
lately.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Peace Term Renlin ierS
GGirard in the Press. ]

lIlTdTu III the TTSSS'I
Things that came to mind when
the peace terms were announced
Germany knows it isn't true.
There was no peace without victory
for the Allies.
America was not too proud to
fight nor too weak to dictate terms
of surrender.
Japan did nothing to win the war,
but takes a big piece of the booty.
She holds that part of China which
she captured from Germany. On
the same terms, England, which
spent 100000 lives and forty bill
lions of money, would be entitled to
all of Belgium which she captured
from the Hun.
The Crown Prince of Germany
insists he is not an idiot. That can
be set down as a minority report.
Germany loses territory twenty
one times as big as Pennsylvania.
over nearly all of this the English
language will prevail.
The troupe from Berlin spoke it's
piece in German, but must submit
its reply to the peace terms in
English and French.
Little Jack Horner stuck in his
tHulllp anu bOI out plulll. bIlClC
Sam put in the war $4,000 human
lives and thirty billions of cash and
pulls out nary a plum. but does ex-
tract enough glory to last forever.
The old German complaint was
that every man must carry a SOL
der on his back" With the German
army cut to 100000 troops that will
give the Teuton taxpayer a rest for
which he may thank his enemy and
friend, the Allies and America.
When asked to buy V bond,
please remember that if Germany
sat at the head of the peace table in
stead of Clemenceau, you would not
be asked, but ordered to buy at
least five times as many bonds to
give the Kaiser.
81 will pay no indemnity" saws
the Hun. Very well, IL thirty bill
lion dollar rose smells sWeeter
when called PREPARATION" so be it.
All German money looks alike to
France and Belgium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
The ConStdnfinople Mandate

This Constantinople mandate will,
as a matter of fact, require lot Of
consideration before we accept it.
1t viii be a heavy, a costly and
possibly a perilous responsibility.
We must not delude ourselves with
the pleasing fiction that the moment
Old Glory goes up over the minarets
of the picturesque city on the Bos-
porus, the European peoples, who
have coveted, intrigued and fought
for Constantinople for centuries,
will automatically cease to desire it.
Very easily can we imagine a num-
ber of nations as coming to regard
it again as a literal necessity of
national life and being quite pre-
pared to go to war for it.-From
the Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Ehrntng Glrat

Members of the Telegraph ia al
ly have welcomed home half a.
dozen OF the soldier sons the last
few days, but none of the return
ing warriors who have upheld the
traditions OF the Harrisburg Tele-
graphs people in war after war,
was extended heartier greeting
than Charles w. Thomas. first lieu
tenant of Company I, of the One
Hundred and Twelfth Infantry.
Lieutenant Thomas will take up his
work as assistant foreman of the
news composing room when he is'
mustered out. as Telegraph policy
Is to give its members their jobs
when they return from fighting for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
The Metric System

The World Trade Club. of San
Francisco. urging that England and
America join the metric league and
make it unanimous, points out that
even now these countries are metric
measures in world postage, electri-
cal industry, science and medicine,
airplane engines; that they used and
accustomed to the system during
the war; that world war news was
generally printed with metric terms
because there was no time to trans
late; that forty million American
school children have been taught
the system and that nearly every
body has had to buy, sell, quote. use
and talk in metric terms.-From
the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Attorney General Schaffer has
been much mplimented for the
action of the State in the telephone
rate cases by many of the legislators.
james NJ. Yeager. former Unit
ed States marshal. was here yester-
day visiting friends on the Hill. He
used to be in the Legislature.
Michael J. Martin, here yester-
day for the Federal Court, is one
of the prominent lawyers of the
Lackawanna bar.
-EX-Senator John W. Hoke..
editor and lawyer, spent yesterday
in the city visiting his brother,
Howard NJ. Hoke. Mr.. Hoke is an
authority on the Cumberland Valley
history and of a family that has
been active In the literary line.
Judge John w. Reed sat for his
first hearings as a public service
commissioner at Pittsburgh this
week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10

and the rats. They are 'both dan
gerous, both live off the efforts of
others. both do their dirty work in
the dark. both are destructive, both
are carriers of contagion, both breed
disease and death.
Our soldier friends are giving the
reds" the only kind of medicine
that will do them any good; the
only kind of punishment they can
understand. A few more such
wholesome lessons as were admins
tered in New York the other day, and
there will be fewer preachers of
Bolshevism in this country. 1t may
be bit irregular, but ii is justi-
fed and effective.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
Hunger in Germany

In characteristic fashion, a Ger
man scientist has figured out that
hunger resulting from the Allied
blockade caused tho people of the
empire to lose weight to the aggre-
gate to the extent OF $40. 900 metric
tons. They lost some other things
while that blockade was in full pro-
gress, end we trust that the Herren
Profesoren will tabulate them
under their proper classification
with equal precision. The Teutonic
gift for analysis can never be better
exercised in revealing TO the war;
makers the exact cost OF their ad-
venture.-From the New York
World.