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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20
TRADE BREVITIES
Tobacco in Japan

The total value of the product manufac-
tured and disposed of in Japan for the fiscal
year ending March, 1919, was Sos, 249,7o3
The consumption of tobacco in that country
has been increasing greatly each year.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20
B l R T HIS

To Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Neeve, of 28O7
Ezra avenue, September II, boy.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20

IuTeQ ana Q1SpOSeQ OF III Japan Tor the HSCdl
year ending March, 1919, was So, 24o, 7o3.
The consumption of tobacco in that country
has been increasing greatly each year.
Immigration and Emigration
Statistics published by the Bureau Of I'm
migration show that from April l, 1917, to
September 80, 1918, total of 1882 i'm
migrants arrived in the United States, while
123, $40 persons left for other countries
The Soy-Bean
During 1913 the United States imported
from Manchuria soy-bean oil amounting to
257,863,427 pounds, valued at $50, 1906
as against o8,534,626 pounds, valued at
$40 ,740,640 in 1917
United States Trade with Canada
In the last twelve months Canada bought
approximately $7OO,OOO,OOO worth of goods
from the United States and sold approx
mately $500, 100000 worth in the American
market
Banks in Territorial Possessions
Porto Rico has thirteen banks for $3.50
persons, Hawaii has one bank for each
1905 persons, and the Philippines one bank
for each 100000 persons.
Investments in the Philippines
The amount of American capital invested
in the Philippine Islands is various1y esti-
mated at from SIS ,0OO,O 600 to $1OO,OOO,OOO.
Wealth of United States
The National wealth of the United States
is placed at $30O,O0O,00O,OOO. = Literary
Digest of Sept. 6.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20
The Soy-Bean
United States Trade with Canada
Banks In Territorial Possessions

Porto Rico has thirteen banks for o5, 100
persons, Hawaii has one bank for each
1905 persons, and the Philippines one bank
for each 100000 persons.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20

The National wealth of the United States
is placed at $3OO,OOO 100000. - Literary
Digest of Sept 6.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20
Investments in the PHILIPPINES

The amount of American capital invested
in the Philippine Islands is variously esti-
mated at from $75,OOO,OOO to $1OOOOO,OOO.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER THREE

THE other day 1 saw a descrip-
ton of a new aeroplane in an
engineering magazine, so l
guess that absolves me from keep
ing my mouth shut about it," said
Major Frank c. Mahin, of the Army
Recruiting Office, 325 Market street.
1T seems that early last summer
man, on American, figured out
a way to automatically control an
aeroplane, to set the machinery so
that on leaving the ground the
plane would automatically go to a
certain place, do its business and
disappear. That sounds like fish
story, but it is the truth. Late in
October it was finally perfected and
contracts were let. They got the
machine so perfected that before
leaving the ground, they set it to go
to a certain place, turned 1T loose
without a pilot, it would travel fifty,
one hundred, two hundred miles,
and eventually drop it's load of ex-
plosive within fifty yards of the in
tended spot. After hundreds of tests
its accuracy was absolutely estab-
lished, no matter what the wind
or weather conditions might be.
When the machine got over the in
tended spot, the wings dropped off
and burst into flame, and the body
containing its charge of T. n. T.,
dropped like shot from the blue and
exploded on impact with the ground.
The normal machine was to carry
a load of one hundred and fifty
pounds of T. n. T., but machines
to carry as much as two thousand
pounds of T. N. T. were to be built.
The explosive being actually con-
tained in the body of the machine
meant that every last fragment OF
the plane and it's machinery would
be utterly destroyed, thus preserving
the secret of its construction. When
the armistice was signed contracts
had actually been let construction
and deliveries had started, and the
contracts called for two thousand
of the small machines per day.
Think of that, two thousand bomb
ing planes per day, carrying three
hundred thousand pounds of T. N
T., would go over the German lines
every single day, to say nothing OF
couple of hundred big ones each
carrying a ton of T. n. T. When the
Boche started bombing defenseless
women and Children in open towns
they started something that had toe
much of back-fire for their nerves
to stand"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
Labor Shortage Forecast
[Manufacturers' Record

lManuIacturerS RecOrdl
We venture the prediction that
before next year the labor shortage
will be so great that businessmen
and farmers will be scrambling for
men. To meet this condition labor
saving machinery should be brought
into use everywhere and as rapidly
as possible. Household work can
be lessened greatly by modern cleo
trio equipment. Work or the farm
and in the factory still offers an al
most limitless field for labor-sav-
ing equipment to supplant or sup
plement muscle power.
Every manufacturer should as
quickly as possible. so improve his
plant, and when necessary so equip
it with labor-saving devices of every
kind as to be ready to meet the GER
tainty of a great labor shortage.
With an enormous wheat crop as
sured, at high prices for the farmer;
with general improvement in all
agricultural conditions; with high
way work getting under way on a
very large scale; with a marked re-
vival of general constructive activ-
tiles; with a heavy emigration and
but little immigratio the labor sit
uation will soon become acute.
The wise man will be the one who
now lays out his entire campaign to
utilize to the fullest extent every
labor-saving machine available for
his factory, his farm or his home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
THE GRAY MAN OF CHRIST
.:. .:.
[From the Ladies' Home Journal.

him and news of victory upon vic
tory was piled high before him, he
would doubtless have seen a great
gladness on the Generals face, but
he would have seen no look of sur
prise there. Men who do that which
Foch does have no doubts.
When Premier Clemenceau, the
old Tiger of France, stood on the
battle front with anxious heart, one
look at the face of Foch stilled all
his fears. He returned to Paris with
the vision of sure and certain vic
tory. The great statesman doubted,
but the Gray Man of Christ did not
doubt. The facts in the case, then,
are that when the freedom of the
world hung in the balance. the
world turned to Foch as the one
great genius who could save it
against the Hun; and that Foch,
who is perhaps the greatest soldier
the world has produced, is, first of
all, a Christian.
Poung Evans spent nearly on hour
with Foch in an old French church,
and not even one bayonct was there
to keep them apart They repre-
sented the two great democracies of
the world. but there in that old
church they repi esentnd. jointly, a
far greater thing - the democracy
of Christ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
CHANGING VALUES

- HE saying has come up from
the dark ages that the way to
make money is to buy cheap
and sell dear.
AS the Governments of Canada
and Great Britain are pointing out
to their citizens, one way to do this
is to buy standard securities when
general prices are high and hold
them for redemption when prices
are lower. Canadian w. S. s..
posters urge investors to use the
present low power" dollar to buy
government securities and to receive
in redemption at a later period
high power" dollars.
Here is how it works.
Before the war you earned, say,
for purposes of illustration, SO day.
Now you earn, say, So for doing the
same work. But you can't buy any
more with your five dollars than you
could with your three dollars-other
prices have gone up in proportion
to the price of your labor.
To-day you pay about $50 for 20
War Savings Stamps with a par
value of S100 at maturity. What
you actually give for this security is
about sixteen and one-half days
labor.
II, some years after the war is
over, prices and wages decrease
somewhat you may, for example, be
earning and spending 81 per day.
Your War Savings Stamps become
due and the Government gives you
back your SS3 or the then value
of nearly 81 days labor, plus SIT
interest. In terms of days labor
the Government is giving back over
four days more than it received
from you, besides your $17 interest.
This changing value of the dollar
has made many persons richer and
others poorer without their knowing
exactly how it happened. Now is
the chance to join the class of those
who are going to be made richer
and enc safe way to join is by buy
ing the convenient security-the
War Savings Stamp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
Why Strawberries Are Hiqh

lFrom Kansas City Times1
Strawberries have been higher this
year than ever before, and more
than double the prices prevailing
in previous years. One reason for
the high prices is to be found in a
report by the Bureau of Markets,
Department of Agriculture, which
shows that in ten states the area
of strawberries this year is 80 per
cent. less than last year and little
over half that of two years ago.
Every state reporting shows a de-
crease, which seems to indicate that
production of strawberries has not
been profitable.
The estimated Missouri acreage
of commercial strawberries is 4,37O
acres, compared with 6,S40 acres last
year Arkansas shows less decrease.
with $3.50 acres this year, compared
with $3.50 acres last year, though
there is big reduction since 1915,
when the acreage was 1880 acres.
Arkansas has a larger acreage of
strawberries than any other state,
according to this report. Louisiana
is second and Tennessee third.
Estimated production in ten
states this year is 4,332,000 crates;
last year 4,332,000 crates; two years
two years ago $4,000 crates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
OPPORTUNITY
[By Walter Malone ]

lBy walter Malone
They do me wrong who say 1 come
no more
When once l knock and fail to
find you in;
For every day l stand outside your
door
And bid you wake and rise to
fight and win.
Wall not for the precious chances
passed away,
Weep not for golden ages on the
Each night burn the record of the
At sunrise every soul is born
again!
Laugh like a boy at splendors that
have Sped
To vanished joys be deaf, and
blind and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past
with its dead,
But Sever bind a moment yet to
come.
Though deep in mire, wiring not
your hands and weep;
1 lend my arm to all who say 81
cam
No shame-faced outcast ever sank so
deep,
But yet might rise and be again a
man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
WHY THE PUSSYFOOTING? ?

A STORM of indignation is
n sweeping the country as a re-
suit of the recent bomb out
RACES and the activities of the De-
partment of Justice at Washington
are being watched with increasing
interest. What many intelligent
persons cannot understand is why
after every such outrage statements
are made by those in authority. Sc
cret service officials and others, to
the effect that this or that head
quarters of anarchists and anti
American agents is being more
closely watched than ever before.
If these places were known and
there was defirite knowledge of the
sort of activities being carried on
in the particular locations referred
to why in the name of all that is
reasonable were the criminals or
ganized for murder permitted to con-
tinue their operations unhindered
Until the American government
assumes an attitude of vigorous
prosecution in the treatment of
these alien propagandists of every
thing un-American we may expect
the sporadic outbursts to continue
with the inevitable loss of life and
property. Spineless temporizir,g with
this dangerous element will only en-
courage further activities and result
ant indifference to what the govern
ment may attempt to achieve in
suppression of the menace.
There is ray of hope that some
thing in the way of sanity in the
policy of our government respecting
the deportation of the anarchists
who have been operating in this
country may develop through the
Secision this week at Boston by
Judge Aldrich in the United States
District Court refusing the petitions
of certain anarchists fighting against
deportation for writs of habeas
corpus. Reading the list of names
of these petitioners one finds the
source of the trouble. Everyone was
q foreigner who had come to this
country to pursue his blood thirsty
trade among a people who had
thrown open its doors to the op-
pressed of the world, but Why are
the processes Of the law permitted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
SHEER WASTE OF EFFORT
THE Philadelphia Record, not
always very friendly to prohibi-

THE Philadelphia Record, not
always very friendly to prohibi-
ton, is not so blindly partisan
that it cannot see the futility OF
attempting To set aside the force of
the dry amendment to the Federal
constitution. j IF the Association
Opposed to National Prohibition has
any hope of preventing enforcement
of the eighteenth amendment, 1t
must move public opinion to such
an extent that persons opposed to
prohibition will be elected to. Con-
gress and the Legislatures" says the
Record and points out that 'as
forty-five Legislatures ratified the
amendment and thirteen can defeat
the repeal, the prospect of undoing
the amendment is not bright"
This is precisely the view of this
newspaper, expressed months ago,
when it was reported that the liquor
men based their hope on an appeal
/, to the Supreme Court of the United
. States on the ground that the laws
of fourteen States, the Legislatures
of which adopted the national
amendment, require the submission
of constitutional changes to popular
vote. They forget that the Federal
constitution requires action by
the Legislatures only and that
the Supreme Court pays no attention
to State statutes, being guided solely
by national law 1t is, therefore,
evident that Notwithstanding the
growing tendency of the Supreme
Court to disregard technical points
of law in favor of popular opinion,
the court will act only in conformity
with Federal provisions, regardless
of State laws.
Money spent to halt prohibition
now is money wasted. The brewers,
the distillers and others in the
liquor trade would do we'll to keep
their dollars against the time they
will have to change their line of
trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
NO WASTE OF WAISTS

-HE United Waist League is
puzzled. 1t has a question that
might have given old man Sol
omon pause for thought. when is
a waist not a waist, and when is a
waist a blouse?" asks the League
We confess we do not know at
just what point waist becomes
blouse, but we think we know when
a waist is not a waist. May be q
very young waist may be blouse,
or vice versa, just as a young frog
is a tadpole. Or perhaps waist
becomes a blouse after the artists
who create feminine confections OF
this variety hang about nine dollars
worth of trimmings on a dollar
waist and then tag it up at the
especially reduced price of s17.s9.
But be that as it may, we
feel fully competent to judge when
a waist is no longer a waist. There
are many such in Harrisburg; hun
dreds of 'em in fact. A waist, in
our opinion, ceases to be waist
when it degenerates into a mere
whisp of mosquito netting designed
to keep the flies away from the
highly ornamental silk lingerie so
many of the girls have on display
these days. Then, too, there is the
waist that loses it's identity when
it's owner snips the whole front or
back away and leaves one forgetful
of the dress that should have been
there in embarrassment over the
charms of another kind so lavishly
displayed. Yes, we think we know
when its presence is conspicuous by
it's absence, so to speak.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
SIX LITTLE KNIGHTS

-HUS far six officers of the United
State Army, beginning with Sir
- John ]. Pershing, have been
knighted by the King of England,
and it Is reported that the stroke
of the accolade awaits that old salt
Bos'n 10 Daniels. Recently the
first carload of gifts from Euro
the first carload of gifts from Euro
pean royalty to the Wilson's arrived
at the White House.
Is it possible that Section Nine OF
Article One of the United States
Constitution is to be utterly disre-
garded and thrown into the Wilson
waste basket?
The language of the last para
graph of that section is plain and
conclusive, to wit: mo title of nobil-
ity shall be granted by the United
States: And no person holding any
Office of profit or trust under them
shall, without the consent of Con-
gress, accept any present, emolument
office, or title, of any kind whatever
from any king, prince or foreign
state"
These titles and presents have been
accepted without the slightest refer
ence to Congress to obtain the con-
sent of that body. If the Constitu-
ton of the United States is a hollow
mockery. by all means have II
scrapped at once. If 1t is not, thcn
lit remains for the incoming Republi.
can Congress to support 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
A Proper Refusal

[From the Philadelphia Recoro.l
our Government has very proper
lv refused the application. of the
Mexican government for leave TO
move troops for use against Vllla
from Aqua Prieta to Juarez over
American territory. Three years ago.
in a spirit of neighborliness' we
allowed Mexican troops to be moved
between the same points ana Ior
the same purposes, and all the re-
turn we got for 1T was the oi.teI
bost,lity of Carranza to every effort
of ours to punish the Mexican ban
dits who raided our border. If Mr.
Carranza cannot be civil, he can
move his troops over Mexican soil.
We do not care what Villa does In
Mexico and we will take very good
care that he shall not do much IN
the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
LITERARY NOTES

"Silver and Cold" love story of
a western mining region, full OF ac-
ton, romance and adventure, is an
nounced for mid-June publication
by E. P. Dutton & Co. 1t is by Dane
Coolidge, whose Fighting Fool,
also a western story, was published
by the buttons last year.
Prof w. j. Crawfords new work
on Experiments in Psychical
Science" will be published by E. P.
Dutton & Co. in a fortnight. Prof
Crawford's previous volume, The
Reality of Psychic Phenomena,
which the buttons published two
years ago, attracted wide attention
in both the United States and Eng
land because of the new methods by
which the author, a scientist famous
for his Investigations into the physi-
cal properties of matter, carried on
his study of psychical manifestations,
For he used exactly the same kind OF
Investigation and study that he was
accustomed to apply in the physical
sciences, and brought laboratory
processes and appliances to bear
upor all the doings of the spiritist
medium and seance. His previou us
book described his methods and re-
suits up to the time of its writing
and indicated his conclusion that he
was on the verge of the discovery OF
a new form of matter. The forth-
coming volume will recount his FUR
ther experiments and Investigations
since that time and show whether
or not they have furnished further
proof of the conclusions he had pre-
viously formed.
Lieut.. Camille de Carlo is an Ital-
ian aviator who during the war un-
dertook a very hazardous task and
carried it through to triumphant sue
cess, although every minute of the
time was full of perils and thrills
ard threat of death. Because of the
dangers of the work and the courage
and success with which he did 1T the
Italian government gave him its
most coveted decoration. He tells
the whole story in THE Flying Spy
which e. p. Dutton & Co. will pub
lish the middle of June.
F.. p. Dutton & Co. announce fol
June Is a new book by Arthur sym
ons. studies in Elizebethan Drama,
series of critical and interpretative
ESSAYS n.early all of which nave no.
had previous publication In poof
form.
Edward Jenks's THE State ane
the Nation" which E. d. Dutton Q
Co. have just published. was written
esnecialiy for the use of those me1
and women who feel the need o.
more knowledge of how society ha'
developed and of a clearer concep'
t;on of the fundamentals of govern
ment. 1t is based upon his little
hook. "A Short History of Politics..
published twenty or more years age
in the Temple Primer Series wnicr
met with immediate success and o.
which many thousands OF COPIES
nol,eees To meet the demand fol
a similar work in the disturbed ane
uncertain present day conditions Mr.
Jenks has rewritten and very muc1
enlarged the former work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General II. C. Trexler, of AL
lentown, came here yesterday to
look after legislative matters.
&C. +. Huber Wilkes-Barre, coal
operator, here for hearings at the
Capitol, is one of the big coal pro-
ducers of the anthracite field.
Provost e. F. Smith, of the Uni-
virsity of Pennsylvania, was among
people here to-day
"A. P. Moore, Pittsburgh pub
Usher, was here yesterday renewing
old acquaintances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
Still WdtchfuHy Waiting

[From the Topeka State Journal. ]
The United States is maintaining
an army of several thousand men
along the Mexican border at an esti-
mated expense of 1,000.0 900 a week.
Since the people no longer have
their minds distracted by the Euro
pean war from matters nearer home.
they are likely soon to ask why we
keep SO large a force at the doors of
country with which we are at
peace. Something should be done,
and that promptly, to render such q
situation unnecessary
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11

to interfere with the prompt re-
moval of these eundesirabies from the
sell of the United gtatees As nexieas
weeds they should be apreeted, to
the end that wo may have the sense
of security and comfort to which q
nation of free men Is entitled.
II our national altruistic ideals
are destroying our Judgment as to
what constitutes justice in dealing
with these dangerous immigrants,
then 1t would seem to be about time
to revise our ideals and give greater
consideration to commonsense in our
treatment of the criminals VINO
would break down our institutions
and menace our welfare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
Historic TdDern Burned

LFrom the Continental Edition OF
the London Mail.
An interesting bit of old Edin-
burgh, dating back to about 1900.
has been burned. The destroyed
building, which consisted of q single
story and attic, was one of the land
marks of the Holyrood area. It was
the old Yew Tree Tavern, and stood
inside the bounds of the Holyrood
Sanctuary for Debtors. within which,
IN days of yore, the fugitive was free
from the attentions OF his creditors
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-11
The Roosevelt Tradition
Frederick M. Davenport in the
outlook.

Frederick M. Davenport in the
Outlook
The Republican party can win
permanently its old place in the
confidence of America only, by the
power of the Roosevelt tradition.
And the Roosevelt tradition was not
simply straight Americanism. So
called. 1t was above everything else
a belief in the progressive ameliora-
ton of the inequalities and injus-
tees which under modern economic
and social conditions increasingly
rankle in the hearts of the mass of
people. And it included, naturally,
the protection of the property in
terests and of the men of ideas and
business genius and initiative by the
simple process of insisting that these
interests and these men act openly
and wholeheartedly in the spirit of
public service. It is only by the
power OF the Roosevelt tradition
that the American people can per-
rihanefltiy prAsper and the Republic
can p4rty d aanentiy triumph